Extending network over a dry pair

Thu Dec 13 01:50:57 UTC 2018

For dry pairs, I have used Flowpoint SDSL modems (see attached).  I
picked these up for a sawbuck.

Tim

On 12/12/18 5:00 PM, Dan Hollis wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Dec 2018, Nick Bogle wrote:
>> A quick question for you guys;
>>
>> If you had a single dry pair (pair of copper wires originally for phones)
>> to a remote site that was around 6 miles away, what would you use? We
>> currently are just extending a T1 line to this site, but 1.5Mbps isn't
>> cutting it anymore. Unfortunately it's a research site on a federally
>> protected wildlife preserve so we can't run any new infrastructure (fiber
>> etc) and it isn't in a geographical place where point to point
>> wireless is
>> practical. We were thinking there is some sort of network extender that
>> uses some form of DSL for higher bandwidth capacity.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
> 
> If this is telco provided dry pair then the distance is probably longer
> than 6 miles as the endpoints are probably tied together through a telco
> CO.
> 
> I have not heard of any equipment which will work over a 6 mile pair any
> faster than you're getting with T1.
> 
> You might consider setting up wireless repeaters to bridge where there
> is no direct LOS. Look at what the hamwan guys have done.
> http://hamwan.org/
> 
> -Dan