[ale] WAN type connection

[James P. Kinney III]

Get an unswitched line from the phone company to go between the two
buildings. Get two, identical DSL "modems". put one at either end and
turn them on. From this point my memory is fuzzy. There was an article
(slashdot, Linux Journal, can remember...) that detailed the connection
process. It makes a full speed 1.1 Mb connection between the two points.

If they are in site of each other, you can use a laser link. Not great
when the weather is really bad, though.

There was a site that detailed building your own optical interconnection
rig with some cheap stuff. It was not as susceptible to weather effects
as it used visible wavelength orange LEDs. It's called ronja:
http://ronja.jikos.cz/

 

On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 14:41, Kevin O'Neill Stoll wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> If I wanted to connect two buildings, that are 1/2 a mile
> apart, to the same network, What would be the best way to
> handle it?
> 
> Some issues that would come into play are: possibly
> crossing a roadway, lots of rain and heat.
> 
> I remember reading that network mediums have distance
> limitations but I can't remember what they were.
> 
> 
> 
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