On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Chuck Hast wrote:
> On 10/19/06, steve szmidt <steve@szmidt.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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!
[...]
> 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)
Yeah, outdoor conductive LANs in Florida are contraindicated for just that
reason.
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