[Tfug] Cabling between buildings

[Angus Scott-Fleming]

On 28 May 2009 at 0:04, Bexley Hall  wrote:

> I think something DSL-ish will be the easiest win for him.
> There's already miles of phone cable on the property so
> he could leverage that "investment"

This story has links to DSL modems for setting up your own DSL-like 
environment.  The links are probably too old to all be alive but it should give 
you some ideas.  

    I, Cringely . The Pulpit . Roll Your Own | PBS
    http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2001/pulpit_20010823_000703.html

See other links here for more:
    http://www.google.com/search?q=roll+your+own+dsl

Since your buddy has trenching equipment, I'd seriously look into fiber-optic 
links between the buildings with fiber-to-ethernet transceivers at each end. 
You will then have a multi-building LAN over which you can pump anything that 
would work over standard ethernet.  I replaced a fried-by-lightning 2.4ghzx 
bridge with fiber when we had to extend it to another building, and it works 
great.  The three buildings are linked by fiber and within each building we use 
standard CAT5 ethernet cabling.

http://www.google.com/search?q=fiber+lan
http://www.google.com/search?q=fiber+ethernet
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Angus Scott-Fleming
GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona
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