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

[James Harper]

> 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