On 03/12/2013 07:00 AM, Jared Smith wrote: > 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.
That would certainly work. ADSL2+ can do speeds up to 25mbps, but the uplink is still low. VDSL can do up to 100mbps by 50mbps. Something like this: http://www.zhone.com/products/MX-160_260/ http://www.zhone.com/products/cpe/vdsl2/ But that gear isn't cheap, so I'd investigate pulling fiber before committing to DSL. Corey /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
