Extending network over a dry pair

Carl Peterson carl-lists at portnetworks.com
Thu Dec 13 20:22:26 UTC 2018


With CL in the middle, EoC might be an option.  Personally, I'd find a
local WISP and see what they can come up with for you.
On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 10:01 PM Nick Bogle <nick at bogle.se> wrote:

> The driving distance is 4 miles, we are leasing it from CenturyLink whose
> headend maybe adds a mile or less, it's on the route and about half way
> through. I made it 6 miles to be safe. We currently can pull a full 1.5Mbps
> off of that T1 we run there so perhaps CenturyLink is repeating at their CO
> and/or along the route?
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 6:32 PM Dan Hollis <goemon at sasami.anime.net>
> wrote:
>
>> I doubt he will get >1.5mbps with those over a 6 mile long connection.
>>
>> I did a quick check and flowpoint 2200s seem to max out at 192kbps at 3
>> miles.
>>
>> -Dan
>>
>> On Wed, 12 Dec 2018, Tim Pozar wrote:
>>
>> > 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
>> >
>>
>
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