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After a over a year of slowly messing around and calling favors, I have to get a TOSLINK (yes, the HiFi audio standard) link to go 14600 times further than the spec sheets suggests!
And learned a whole load of how modern optical stuff works along the way!
Building Ultra Long Range TOSLINK
https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/sfp-experiment-ultra-long-range-toslink
![A map of london, in front of it are two TOSLINK cables, and the text says "building ultra long range toslink s/pdif"](https://benjojo.co.uk/d/G744jNq3dTNbsvj281Vt3.jpg "A map of london, in front of it are two TOSLINK cables, and the text says "building ultra long range toslink s/pdif"")
@benjojo in school we had an exercise where we had "some loops" of fiber optic and send a laser in to measure its distance, total and where it was patched. Turn out that was 20km that did fit inside a pizza box.
Using real infrastructure is much more impressive :)