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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