[TriLUG] OT: comms inside a corrugated metal building

[Wes Garrison via TriLUG]

The distance limit on CAT 5e/6 is ~300ft.

Any longer than that and you need to run fiber.

If anyone wants to do that, I have direct-burial fiber and a Ditch Witch
410sx.

I'll trade use of the machine and my labor for labor helping me with my own
fiber project.

-Wes
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Wesley S. Garrison
Network Engineer
Xitech Communications, Inc.
phone:  (919) 260-0803
fax:       (919) 932-5051
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On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 8:58 AM Pete Soper via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> For two years I was my next door neighbor's ISP, building and running a
> link between our two houses from a two way satellite link (with the
> vendor's blessing). What a colossal pain in the ass. I ended up with six
> bridges before I found a pair that happened to work 24/7. If you don't
> have line of sight consider what happens when it rains on the trees. If
> you go this route, use decent equipment and go straight to a pair of
> parabolic dish antennas or decent yagis: give yourself a TON of headroom
> with the signal as a hedge against heavy rain. Then ask yourself how
> hard it would be to rent a ditch witch and run direct burial CAT5!!!
>
> -Pete
>
> On 8/15/19 8:51 AM, Wes Garrison via TriLUG wrote:
> > As John and Mauricio said, with line of sight a good p2p bridge is a
> > relatively inexpensive option for getting on-network, but obviously won't
> > help the cellular situation.
> >
> > You need 2 bridges like this:
> > https://www.provantage.com/ubiquiti-networks-pbe-5ac-gen2~7UBNT0FM.htm
> >
> > ..and 2 surge suppressors:
> >   https://www.provantage.com/ubiquiti-networks-eth-sp-g2~7UBNT0JR.htm
> >
> > The last I heard, AT&T no longer sells or activates the Cisco DPH153-AT
> > microcells.  They work well, but they have to be plugged in via Ethernet
> > and only work with 3G data.
> >
> > https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LQY019O/
> >
> > -Wes
>
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