cable limit

[Michael Hipp]

Tony Alfrey wrote:
> Michael Hipp wrote:
>> Vu Pham wrote:
>>> I need to connect two devices which are about 500 or more feet apart.
> <snip>
>>
>> Unless you already have the T-carrier equipment lying around, I'd use 
>> a pair of VDSL modems instead. Very fast and good for thousands of 
>> feet and very tolerant of wire quality variances. About $200US for a 
>> pair.
> <snip>
> 
> Nice looking boxes, they talk about 1.5 km!  Are they really this cheap; 
> that's very impressive (I didn't see a price on their website).

Yes. They work. And easy to manage via web or tty. I've also had good 
success with Zyxel's routers and firewalls.

I usually buy from these guys up in the Frozen White North:

   http://www.llamaworks.ca/17801.html

No relation to our own cherished NetLlama.

Look about 2/3 of the way down the page. An 841/841C pair is $171. (I 
suppose that's Canadian, but it doesn't matter much now. He has a 
stateside shipping point somewhere in Cal-uh-forn-eye-a.)

Michael