Re: Leased Line AS/400 access

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhui@xxxxxxx>]

Years ago one of my customers had two locations about 3/4 miles apart on the 
same
street and a brother in the phone company.  You can guess what happened - twinax
down the street.  Supported 5 CRT's and two printers for years.   The inevitable
happened when someone knocked over a pole and the unauthorized cable was
discovered.  Pretty easy to trace down too!!  Big fine$$$.

For a short range if you can SEE from building to building look at one of the
wireless LAN solutions (black box etc).  With a couple small anttenae mounted
outside you can get 3Mb for around $5K.

  - Larry

PaulMmn wrote:
> 
> Unless the other building is 'connected' to your building on your company's
> property it is unlikely that you'll be able to string your own cable (no
> matter which type of cable you choose).    You have to use Ma Bell.
> 
> Any time your cable crosses a public thoroughfare you'll have to resort to
> Ma Bell.
> 
> At one job we had 2 buildings on opposite sides of a road.  We had a
> conveyor belt running through a bridge over the road.  Ruling was that we
> -could- run our cables through the bridgework to the other side; the bridge
> was ours, and it made a connection between sides.
> 
> --Paul E Musselman
> PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com
> 
> >If you want a real low cost, low tech solution: string a twinax cable.
> >They're close enough.
> >
> >Jeff Crosby wrote:
> >>
> >> We have a 2nd building 7 blocks down the street.
> ><<snip>>
> >>
> >>   I want the flexibility to have other devices at the
> >> remote location in the future.  In addition, there may very well be a
> >> 3rd site (2 blocks down the street in the _other_ direction) in the near
> >> future that I would want connected to the main building as well.

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