On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 2:50 AM, S. Dale Morrey <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been asked to salvage a project where someone laid cat 5 to all > the houses in a neighborhood but didn't seem to have a concept of > signal loss in long runs of cat 5. > Assuming this is a max of 250m from the head end, is there an > amplifier or relay or something that can be placed at the end points > to mitigate the packet loss issues?
You could always put in a small DSLAM at the head end, and cheap DSL modems on the far end, and treat the CAT-5 as CAT-3... While not ideal, I've seen it work well in lots of cases. -- Jared Smith /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
