On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Leigh L. Klotz, Jr. WA5ZNU <
Leigh@wa5znu.org> wrote:
> ...
>
> Here's what I did: I went to fiber. It's not that expensive, especially
> surplus or on eBay. Fiber with ST connectors (they look like tiny BNC
> connectors) is fairly cheap. I've found ten-dollar 10 MBbit PCI cards
> that look exactly like copper Ethernet cards, only with a fiber transducer
> instead of ethernet magnetics. I've found $40 transition boxes that go
> between 10MBit or 100MBit and fiber. Stick a 10MBit one of these on your
> router and the PCI Card in your computer and you have only eliminated
> 100MBit from your router, and achieved total galvanic isolation from your
> computer to the ethernet box (note: don't do this if you are that one guy
> in DC who has *more* than 10MBit from your cable provider).
>
> ...
> Leigh/WA5ZNU
How do you do random length "infrastructure" cabling with fiber? All I see
are pre-cut and terminated jumpers for sale. I assume that means that
cutting and terminating fiber is a non-trivial operation?
73 Martin AA6E
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Martin Ewing, AA6E
Branford, CT
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