--- title: My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated, Literally | daily.dev description: A homelab enthusiast discovered their armored fiber optic cables physically disintegrating after 3.5 years of storage. The cables, purchased from FS.com and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/my-home-fibre-network-disintegrated-literally-u10vmouqe twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated, Literally | daily.dev og:description: A homelab enthusiast discovered their armored fiber optic cables physically disintegrating after 3.5 years of storage. The cables, purchased from FS.com and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/my-home-fibre-network-disintegrated-literally-u10vmouqe og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/U10vmoUqE.png og:image:alt: My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated, Literally og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated, Literally **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 4 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A homelab enthusiast discovered their armored fiber optic cables physically disintegrating after 3.5 years of storage. The cables, purchased from FS.com and buried under cement flooring in PVC trunking, crumbled when touched due to being kept spooled with a tight radius. The failure revealed that armored cables aren't meant for movement and should have been connected to a patch panel instead. Despite attempting repairs with electrical tape, the handling caused additional jacket failures and likely fiber strand damage. The compromised cable still functions but shows reduced performance (6-7 Gbps vs expected 10 Gbps), and the remaining unused cables appear likely to fail similarly. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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