On 10/19/06, steve szmidt <steve@szmidt.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 19 October 2006 15:11, Chuck Hast wrote:
>
> > Shucks,
> > Why wast money on heat shrink buy some hose not only that, you can get
> > it in more colours, pull a pull twine through it (use a vacuum and suck
> > it through) and pull the two cables through the hose, get a size that is
> > not too big and has a nice color.... I do not know how much 100ft of heat
> > shrink will cost but it also gets pretty stiff as it cools down and
> > contracts.
>
> Heck,
> Why spend money on this low tech junk? Pull a fiber through it, now you have
> unlimited bandwidth. (Well, up to the recv/trsmit nodes.) It will be worth it
> though! :)
>
> Plus it will not be susceptible to any interference. Now you can have as many
> connections as you want. (Once you buy the fiber optics nodes, which you
> should be able to do for a few hundred each. Then the switch to allow
> multiple connections. Plus the fiber tool which is only a few hundred. Of
> course the cable which is not too bad when you get a volume break.)
>
> But then you'll be sitting pretty! Imagine! One of the few who already have
> fiber to the home!
>
That is exactly what I was going to really say but it looked like everyone
was fixated on the cat 6 thing. I am doing something simlar but for a
different reason in part. I have my home on one end of my property and
my workshop/offfice/junk place on the other end with about 300 ft between
them. I have buried 1.5 inch pipe and run cat 5 through it, but of course
a lighting storm took out the hub on one end (spared the other though)
I had a protocol converter, I just needed another one. I found a 5 port
switch with a fiber connection on it, and put it in. Right now I just have
a short piece of fibre to keep the lightning out of the rest of it, but I have
been looking around for some fibre to pull through that pipe, I found a
100M piece with the right connectors on each for I think it was $75, I
just have to order it and pull it through the pipe.
Once you go glass you will never look back.
-- Chuck Hast -- KP4DJT -- To paraphrase my flight instructor; "the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn and twisted metal." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided as an unmoderated internet service by Networked Knowledge Systems (NKS). Views and opinions expressed in messages posted are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of NKS or any of its employees.
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