Re: long distance LAN

by Christopher Higgs <chiggs(at)unimelb.edu.au>

Date:	Tue, 14 May 2002 09:28:05 +1000
To:	Michael Jon Muehlendorf <haoka(at)wi.tds.net>
Cc:	hwg-servers(at)hwg.org
In-Reply-To:	tds
	todo: View Thread, Original

At 05:45 PM 10/05/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>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.

We've used a couple of plain copper telephone wires without any 
problems.  It provides us with a 2Mbps link over 1km.

A quick search of Google for "copper bandwidth" turned up heaps of links


Chris Higgs
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ILFR, University of Melbourne
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