Fiber Optic – Maximum Segment Length for Single-Node and Multi-Node

I have no experience blowing cables but the subject got me intereted so that's results of my googling:

1. From 1994 book "Fiber Optics Installations" about CABLEJET machine:

"With one such an installntion unit it is possible, using an 8 bar compressor, to install fibre-optic cables for the trunk-network (aluminum water barrier, 10 mm HDPE jacket) with lengths up to 1250 meter and with speeds up to 1 meter per second"

About blowing special cables to homes:

Cable contains 32 single-fiber cables has an aluminium water barrier and diameter of 4 mm. These cables are blown up to 400 meters.

Specific distances may be outdated in this book but we can still draw a conclusion that blowing distance depends on fiber cable type.

2. Industrial suggestion from "Thorne and Derrick UK" - 1 km to 3 km per blowing unit:

Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with mentioned company in any manner.

First off, you need two of those at each end, one for each direction. Second, it looks more like SC/PC to me, not SC/APC.

If you want to just plug in your replacement cable, then you don't have a choice, because the equipment optics determines multi-mode or single mode, in other words it's not just the cable's physical connector that has to fit where you plug it in, but the fiber's mode also has to correspond to the mode of the optical equipment that you're plugging it in to.

Multi-mode is cheaper (never wondered if it's the fiber or the optics, probably both). For multi-mode the best you'll do over 2000 ft is 100 Mbps.

Be careful, because if this cable plugs in to some equipment that your ISP installed in your building, it is probably NOT active optical equipment, but just a patch into another cable that runs to the ISP's optical equipment in a network room somewhere in your neighborhood. Extending the cable may not be supported by your ISP.

Instead of extending the ISP fiber, you may want to investigate the possibility of leaving your ISP installation as it is, and running cables between your buildings that plug in to your internal network.