Re: long distance LAN
by Christopher Higgs <chiggs(at)unimelb.edu.au>
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Tue, 14 May 2002 09:28:05 +1000 |
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Michael Jon Muehlendorf <haoka(at)wi.tds.net> |
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hwg-servers(at)hwg.org |
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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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