[Asterisk-Users] OT: HOWTO: Create a 90mbit bonded link 600 metre s away with Cat 3 or telco wire [long]

[Andrew Kohlsmith]

On Thursday 06 April 2006 17:44, Colin Anderson wrote:
> 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.

I have to ask, what was wrong with a pair of media converters ($200/pair new, 
$50/pair on ebay) and some cheap-as-dirt multimode fiber?  Isolated, 100mbit 
and easily, easily gangable. Was the goal simply to get as fast as possible 
with regular copper wire, or was there a bigger objective?

I do appreciate the effort put into this, though, and more than anything I 
appreciate your posting it here for others.  I sincerely thank you for that.

-A.