On Saturday 14 February 2009 07:56:36 Steve wrote: > On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:14:36 +1300 > > yuri <[email protected]> wrote: > > 2009/2/13 Steve Holdoway wrote: > > > That's what I'd heard as well. It's to network the gottage - or should > > > I say goffice? - which I've thrown up a bit of ordinary cat5 for the > > > moment, which won't last the winter. With those data rates, I might as > > > well put in a wireless bridge - much cheaper, too (: > > > > Putting cat5 in walls with RJ45 sockets on a nice wallplate is not > > difficult. > > > > Floor - concrete or wooden floorboards? > > Roofspace? > > Roof - steel or concrete rooftiles? > > Outer cladding - brick? Weatherboard? other? > > On brick houses there is a gap between the timber framing and the > > brick which is good for dropping cable down from the roofspace to a > > wall socket. > > > > Internal walls - gib or lathe-and-plaster? Lathe-and-plaster walls are > > often dwang-less which makes dropping wires down them quite easy. > > > > Dwangs can be drilled straight down from the top-plate but this is a > > pain. > > > > There are options. > > > > Yuri > > Hi Yuri, long time no hear! Unfortunately, the goffice is about 15m from > the house, which limits my options to digging a trench ion the clay or > suspending it in the air ( which tends to have a low WAF ).
There is still the option of an optical link such as:- http://www.laser2laser.co.nz/about_laser.htm Those particular units are probably overkill for what you want to do, but is indicative of what can be done. -- With Sincerity, Christopher Sawtell
