Go fiber its cheap .. why trench its Private land anyway you could put it on poles ... fiber products are cheap these days .. splicing is just 2 - 3 K per splice there are many guys doing it in Nai now ... you will have high speeds .. Most SFPs S1.1 will shoot 5KM so you need no repeaters ... ;-)

On 9 September 2010 18:32, Kenneth Ndirangu <kendirangu@gmail.com> wrote:

I think the lowest is 550 for multimode and 2km for single mode. and
you don't need repeaters what you change is the transciever (some
small connector you plug into the switch)

I think quite a number of structured cabling companies can do this for
you quite cheaply plus everything is locally available.

Ken

On 9 September 2010 13:47, [ Brainiac ] <arebacollins@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi, @kenneth, what kind of range does fiber have before you need a
> repeater?
>
> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Kenneth Ndirangu <kendirangu@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Considering you can't do copper ethernet comfortably over 100 meters,
>> then your copper options will be limited to non Ethernet ones.
>> You can go with a 4 wire copper trunk and have an E1 (2mb) between the
>> 2 points but you need dte's to connect to your ethernet switch.
>> On the other hand fiber will easily go 500m and you can get entry
>> level fiber switches below 20k on both sides. You will need to splice
>> it initially but that's a one time cost.
>>
>> I would settle for wireless even b4 copper, too much headache for to
>> little capacity. But fiber is best.
>>
>> Regards
>> Ken
>>
>> On 9 September 2010 12:45, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > he he he. all am saying is that your thinking is interesting,sound like
>> > something that would be tried out in an AT&T lab. However, sadly, we are
>> > a
>> > consumer of R&D. Our universities are busy been ISO Certified and most
>> > of
>> > our local companies find it cheaper to import technology.
>> >
>> > On 9 September 2010 12:20, [ Brainiac ] <arebacollins@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> sitting next to engineers can have some positive feedback:
>> >>
>> >> There you go, thats your explanation right there...
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