[Tfug] Cabling between buildings

[Angus Scott-Fleming]

On 25 May 2009 at 14:04, Bexley Hall  wrote:

> I've a friend who has several buildings on his property (many acres) between
> which he would like to run network cabling.  Wireless is out of the question
> (paranoia as well as distances). 
> 
> I imagine you can purchase CAT5 cable suitable for direct burial.  But, I am
> not sure that even that would handle the distances involved (think:  many
> acre ranch). 
> 
> Optical fibre comes to mind as a solution (especially to tolerate any large
> common mode voltages that you could encounter in such an installation --
> think: lightning).  But, are there any better options?  He's not keen on
> spending a lot of money to do so (e.g., he could always purchase multiple
> cell phones with "data service" and route packets through TPC to get from
> location A to location B  :-/ ) 

Lightning will be a problem if you use copper wire between buildings unless you 
go to extremes to ground out voltage issues caused by nearby strikes.  

I would go fiber-optic or wireless.

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Angus Scott-Fleming
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