[ale] Fiber optic ethernet

[Scott Plante]

Have you considered wireless? I have read a lot of people have had success with homemade "cantennas" or "WokFi" devices at distances longer than 400 feet. You're basically just using relatively cheap wi-fi devices and combining a can or parabolic cooking wok to isolate and/or amplify the signal you want. I've never tried it, but perhaps someone on the list has. It might be worth investigating before you spend a lot of money on fiber cable & switches, conduit, renting a trencher, etc. Google turns up lots of stuff. 

Scott 


NZ TV Station uses $10 woks instead of $20,000 commercial link, range up to 20km 
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10425224 
----- Original Message -----

From: "William Bagwell" <rb211 at tds.net> 
To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org> 
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 11:13:53 AM 
Subject: Re: [ale] Fiber optic ethernet 

So one end must be a more expensive card or switch? Will search out some 
prices this evening... 

William 

On Thursday 28 February 2013, Lightner, Jeff wrote: 
> I did want to note that 10 GigE cards are actually fibre but do Ethernet 
> so the entire connection can be fibre but of course you’d either have to 
> do direct connections to another fibre card on a server or have 10 GigE 
> switch. Probably a bit too expensive for a home setup. We use it here 
> in the office but I didn’t do the pricing so don’t know what it costs. 



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