Re: Inexpensive point-to-point solution needed

On Dec 17, 1:31 am, "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh"
<lloydspinsidemindspring.com> wrote:
That's a good point, John. You can get a two pair outdoor
mm fiber cable for about $1 a feet in any length. No need
for pipes, but should be placed under ground frost to extend
lifetime. In addition you need two fiber converters, $100 each,
and a couple of weekends of work.You will end up with a
silution where your day to day concern is what to use your
bandwidth for, and not whether or not it's working, If you
can avoid wireless, do!

John's quibble is acknowleged.  Yours still results in a link that is
quite a bit more expensive than the wireless solution. (roughly $600
vs. under $400)

Yes. Best cost more than bad.

Yours benefits from having a higher intrinsic bandwidth.  That assumes
you have the bandwidth to use it, though.

I bet they can come up with something, sharing movies and music for
instance. Is there anything else you need bandwidth for?

As far as reliability?... The PS-2s over that distance (400+ feet) are
rock-solid.  

Rock-solid my ass. I have built some wireless networks in my life and
when it sais watchdog it means software routine, and when it sais
water proof, it means you need to put it inside a bucket that is acit
proof unless you want a router (or antenna) if plastic cracks and suck
in water, and if it sais lightning proof it means it won't put your
house on fire, but destroy your equipment it will, and if it sais peak
voltage proof, it doesn't mean a circuit that will reset the µC when
voltage drops under a certain level like in equipment made by
reasonable man, oh no, it means your router at best wil reset to
factory settings. Don't you dare tell me that cunsumer product, here
under wireless is any good. I know it's shit from long experience.
Shit that needs daily care. My clear experience with wireless points
in one direction. If you don't want to use alots of time fixing
problems, go fiber. It's the best way, specially if you're doing an
electronic potentional separation with a good local ground, and if you
live in lightning area, a good lightning deflector. If you got bad
voltage, which often drops, then you may want to go -48V with
batteries function as a capacitor. Then you may get something close to
rock solid. Just make sure you got that fiber to transport data unless
there is impossible.

You aren't going to be concerned with up-time with either
configuration at that distance, unless you include hardware failures.

lol.

Listen boy. Distance when it comes to wireless is ONLY a fading
concern. If your fading margin is great enough to for all the weather
in your district, distance is not relevant. Other than this, longer
distance got no magical property that makes it less reliable. Power is
sqr distance. Twice the distance screams for four times the power,
neither more nor less, to get the same fade margin.

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