Re: long distance LAN

Why not a VPN over the Internet (or just plain RAS)? There are some nice
little routers with VPN endpoints (eg Bay). With cable, ADSL (or even ISDN)
at each end it would be quite useable. You don't need the ISP to set
anything up. We used this between remote offices before getting leased lines
and still use it for teleworkers.

Kathy Evans
Vendetta Business & Technical Services Limited
http://www.vendetta.co.uk
0191 421 1532
07770 538739

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Jon Muehlendorf" <haoka(at)wi.tds.net>
To: <hwg-servers(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 11:45 PM
Subject: long distance LAN


> Hello List!
>
> I have some experience on a NT 4.0 LAN, setting it up, running cables,
> etc., but where all machines were within 30 feet of the server. Now I have
> a situation where I need to connect two computers that are approx. 1/4
mile
> apart, one in a house and the other in a small office / store. The
> connection needs to be "unattended" and allow users on both machines to
> interact with the same database in real time, so stuff like PC Anywhere
> through a dial-up won't work.
>
> What I need is maybe just a pointer to the kind of hardware I'm looking
at.
> (The guy that owns this place assumed that he could just dig a trench and
> bury Cat5 cabling the whole 1/4 mile, or even a modular telephone line.)
>
> I am almost certain that won't work, unless he also plans on having some
> kind of amplifiers or repeaters every required bit of distance, which also
> means providing power supplies for those devices.
>
> Anybody got any experience with this?
>
> TIA,
>
> Mike
>

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