Hi Bob,
This is just my personal tinkering. It doesn’t have to be shared, but that’s something I’ll probably experiment with.
I went with the LC fiber because the parts were relatively cheap on Ebay. I needed a transceiver for the TS-531x anyway, so Cat 6 wasn’t a requirement.
Where I work, we have a 12 bay QNAP that my room is connected to with SmallTree 10Ge cards. It’s always seemed a bit funky to me over the 4 years we’ve had it. Maybe with what I’m learning with mine, I can work with our IT department to sort things out.