asterisk users - Apr 2006 - OT: HOWTO: Create a 90mbit bonded link 600 m etres away with Cat 3 or telco wire [long]

yeah that's what came up before when I asked the list about this a couple
months ago. The concensus was that in the case of a lightning strike or what
have you the 24 awg copper would immediately fry and would not transmit too
much of the current sustained. of course my neat little trick here would be
fried all to hell, but...

-----Original Message-----
From: James Harper [mailto:james.harper@bendigoit.com.au]
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 4:22 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] OT: HOWTO: Create a 90mbit bonded link 600
metres away with Cat 3 or telco wire [long]

> I was given the challenge recently of creating a LAN-LAN bridge
between
> two
> buildings several
> hundred metres from each other, using only existing Cat 3 wiring and
> without
> having to resort
> to an expensive and finicky 5 Ghz wireless link. I was able to create
a 90
> megabit link for
> about $3,000 Cdn with new PC's, CentOS 4.1, and the newly avaliable
Black
> Box VDSL Ethernet
> Extender, which supports 30 megabits over a single twisted pair.
Be very carefully running copper loops between buildings without proper
isolation. Google will probably tell you all about it.

James
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