Direct Optical Fiber adapted to Desktop?

[Budgetclocker]

I have been looking at the speeds advertised for different networks and the prices of the equipment for these respective networks, but I wondered: is there a way to connect an optical fiber connection directly to a desktop computer via some sort of expansion card?

 

To clarify this, I want to know if it is possible to have an internet connection by an optical fiber cable connected directly to a network adapter card in the desktop.

[Donut417]

49 minutes ago, Budgetclocker said:

I have been looking at the speeds advertised for different networks and the prices of the equipment for these respective networks, but I wondered: is there a way to connect an optical fiber connection directly to a desktop computer via some sort of expansion card?

 

To clarify this, I want to know if it is possible to have an internet connection by an optical fiber cable connected directly to a network adapter card in the desktop.

Id say yes. But you have to be careful because there are different standards when it comes to Fiber. I do know that Comcast's Gigabit Pro (2Gbps/2Gbps) the media converter they supply provides a 1 Gbps Ethernet port and a 10 Gbps Fiber port. So technically you could hook in to the Fiber port and run a wire to your computer, and yes they do have add on cards that do Fiber. Many people would use one of these cards for PFsense to provide a WAN connection to their router. 

 

 

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18 hours ago, Budgetclocker said:

is there a way to connect an optical fiber connection directly to a desktop computer via some sort of expansion card?

well it depent what kind of Fiber do you have? A Glasfiber? Something who called "Fiberpower" here who is DSL? So "Fiber" could mean Internet via "Cable TV".

Here the have some Cards where you can put in an SFP Module in: https://www.delock.de/produkte/G_1135_LAN.html

[Acedia]

23 hours ago, Budgetclocker said:

I have been looking at the speeds advertised for different networks and the prices of the equipment for these respective networks, but I wondered: is there a way to connect an optical fiber connection directly to a desktop computer via some sort of expansion card?

 

To clarify this, I want to know if it is possible to have an internet connection by an optical fiber cable connected directly to a network adapter card in the desktop.

I don't know what the other guys here are talking about but if it's regular old fibre you just need an PCI-E Card for an "SFP" port and and a fitting SFP module (falsely known as a GBIC), either single mode or multimode.

[YubinTheBunny]

8 hours ago, Acedia said:

I don't know what the other guys here are talking about but if it's regular old fibre you just need an PCI-E Card for an "SFP" port and and a fitting SFP module (falsely known as a GBIC), either single mode or multimode.

The op would also need to figure out how to authenticate to the isp if what he's doing is connecting direct to isp. Usually it's gonna be pppoe (with some sort of vlan tagging) or DHCP and it might need finagling with configs to get it to actually connect. Unless he means to connect from fiber media from a router or a switch or something then that's whatever he set on those boxes.