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Reviewed in Canada on January 6, 2025
Literally plug and play for ease of install. Speed tested up to gigabit at 600ft OM3 cable so its good compatibility with OM3. Very good value as I bought this to function test a fibre install and show the customer it was up to speed. Customer ended up using this instead of his $600 rack mount media converter as this worked 100% and the expensive unit didn’t!
PcD
Reviewed in Canada on August 24, 2024
Excellent quality, good performance.
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2024
On my unit, the RJ45 port has a lot of resistance, and the SFP cage is slightly bulging inward from the top. However, this hasn't hindered functionality, so it's within reason for a $25 device.iperf3 bandwidth was the same with/without the converter. I also did a crude ICMP ping test from my router to PC to measure latency. It adds around 4us (repeatably):Without converter:100000 packets transmitted, 100000 packets received, 0.0% packet lossround-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.025/0.034/0.081/0.001 msWith converter:100000 packets transmitted, 100000 packets received, 0.0% packet lossround-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.029/0.037/0.082/0.001 msI just wish these devices weren't so expensive. The 10G capable ones cost almost 3-4x as much. I'm just using it to electrically isolate my router from the cable modem (which of course doesn't have an SFP port).
Tim
Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2024
This was plug and play with no issues. Just a straight forward solution at the right price.
Michael L
Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2024
I originally bought this 4 years ago to connect my stand-alone garage to my home network.I decided to go the fiber route because I already had conduit run back to it that I could run the line through. Previously I had tried a wireless mesh but my house has aluminum siding and then fire break (think cement board) material under it. On top of that the garage is cinderblock / concrete. That meant getting a wireless signal back there, even with mesh, was problematic. Alternatively I could have used regular CAT 7 cable but the concern was degradation of the wires in the conduit (it does get wet 4 feet below ground - it has been there for 15 years).In the end went with fiber and this product as a "temporary" way to integrate the fiber optic into my regular wired networks in the house and garage. Honestly, it has been so reliable that I never went to a "permanent" solution and 4 years later - they have been and still are working 24/7 without any issue.
Nathan
Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2024
I used this gigabit media converter to convert Single Mode Fiber for an internet circuit connected to an out-of-band management device that didn’t have an SFP port. The device worked perfectly without any issues. Just a heads-up—if you’re installing this in a data center, make sure to order a C14 to NEMA adapter for the power supply if your PDUs use that type of plug. Solid product and did exactly what I needed!
memrp
Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2023
Bought a pair of these converters and a 30-meter fiber cable to replace an aerial, copper Ethernet cable between two buildings. The fiber setup worked great for a day and then crapped out. Since cable and converters were new, I had to determine which part was bad. After buying a short fiber patch cable, I determined the problem was in one of the converters. I got a replacement set and it has been working great for the last month. Since something in the original pair of converters was bad, I give 4 rather than 5 stars.Installation was simple, even though I've never worked with fiber before. The setup is pretty obvious. Plug in the fiber cable to the converters on each end, plug in your RJ45 Ethernet network cable to the converters on each end, and plug in the power supplies for the converters. Done. The one thing you have to be sure of (when ordering) is to make sure the fiber cable matches the converters. These converters expect a duplex, single-mode fiber cable with LC connectors on the ends. The description of the cable I got was: "100 Feet (30 Meters) Uniboot LC to LC Outdoor Armored Fiber Patch Cable, Low Friction Single Mode Duplex Fiber Optic Cable Jumper Optical Patch Cord, 9/125um, (OS1/OS2 Compatible), LSZH Black" This cable came configured as a crossover cable, so the TX from one converter goes into the RX of the other -- and vice versa.
jehad
Reviewed in Saudi Arabia on October 31, 2023
good
Andre V.
Reviewed in Mexico on April 25, 2023
Conectamos más de 309 Mts con excelente resultado
Jaime Sharp
Reviewed in Australia on December 26, 2020
The Adapter functions as desired though only contained a US power adapter so converters or an additional power adapter is required if you’re from outside the US
BatteryKing
Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2018
As it looks like the reviews Amazon associates with this device are with 'similar' devices, thought I should chime in on how this particular device works.I plugged in a 'Cisco' rated 10GTek multimode, 550m range SFP transceiver into this, plugged the other identical SFP transceiver into my genuine Cisco SG300 series switch and strung up a 30m pre-made multi-mode fiber rated for outdoor use. The goal of this setup over copper is electrical isolation in case of lightning. It just works. At this it is by far the cheapest solution I have hit so far that just works.I tested performance between my laptop and main computer with iperf and performance was identical between directly plugging in laptop to my Cisco SG300 and through this media converter, near 1Gb/s speeds.With it being so quick, cheap, and easy to do fiber this way, one has to wonder why the fastest ISP I can get in the middle of a major, dense city only provides much crappier, unreliable, fails as soon as the power goes out, and slower service with much more expensive hardware so they can do it over coax and my only other option is antique, slow phone lines. Plus when I moved in they had to string up new lines and of course they chose copper, not fiber, which makes no sense to me. With a cheap single mode SFP transceiver and a cheap media converter they could provide me much faster service with lines running back to their central office where they could have UPSes and backup generators to make the service reliable and sell the service for more money because it would be worth it. At this the stuff wouldn't be going out / getting fried every time there was a lightning storm, which has become increasingly common and intense in recent years where I live. Also FiOS makes no sense to me either when I was in a FiOS neighborhood because they installed this gigantic box (ONT) in my closet that must of cost them a fortune while this cheap little box I am using does the same job except much faster at maybe 1/40th the price. So it's like I could provide awesome service that serves the customers' every need and do it well with a $25 box or I could do it badly with a $1,000 box. Of course telco logic is do it badly with the super expensive box that falls way short of the mark every time.
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