<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">Have you considered wireless? I have read a lot of people have had success with homemade "cantennas" or "WokFi" devices at distances longer than 400 feet. You're basically just using relatively cheap wi-fi devices and combining a can or parabolic cooking wok to isolate and/or amplify the signal you want. I've never tried it, but perhaps someone on the list has. It might be worth investigating before you spend a lot of money on fiber cable & switches, conduit, renting a trencher, etc. Google turns up lots of stuff.</font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">Scott</font><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">NZ TV Station uses $10 woks instead of $20,000 commercial link, range up to 20km</div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10425224</font><br><hr id="zwchr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;"><b>From: </b>"William Bagwell" <rb211@tds.net><br><b>To: </b>"Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale@ale.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, February 28, 2013 11:13:53 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ale] Fiber optic ethernet<br><br>So one end must be a more expensive card or switch? Will search out some <br>prices this evening...<br><br>William<br><br>On Thursday 28 February 2013, Lightner, Jeff wrote:<br>> I did want to note that 10 GigE cards are actually fibre but do Ethernet<br>> so the entire connection can be fibre but of course you’d either have to<br>> do direct connections to another fibre card on a server or have 10 GigE<br>> switch. Probably a bit too expensive for a home setup. We use it here<br>> in the office but I didn’t do the pricing so don’t know what it costs.<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Ale mailing list<br>Ale@ale.org<br>http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale<br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br>http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo<br></div><br></div></div></div></body></html>