On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:43 AM, [ Brainiac ] <arebacollins@gmail.com> wrote:

so... anyone else in kilifi interested in a super LAN?
warning, lots of digging , trenches involved....

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 7:56 PM, David Njuguna <dnjuguna@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks to everyone that has offered their advice on the matter.

It is increasingly clear that fibre would be the best option.

David

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 6:28 PM, James Kagwe <kagwejg@gmail.com> wrote:
> at a distance of 500m I doubt any splicing will be required. Fiber is the
> better opton for you.
>
> On 9/10/2010 12:49 AM, Watson Kambo wrote:
>
> 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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