Brian and all others that have replied,

I would love to talk more on these things.  It seems that there are four 
points of "patch" between the rooms in each building.  There is no direct 
cable from us to the other room.  Would this make a difference?  All the 
people that I have talked with tell me that it should work, but it doesn't.

I had someone come out and look things over.  Their comment was to either 
wireless it or run a cable directly from the Dmark to the other buildings.

Maybe in my rush, I have forgotten to speak about certain aspects of these 
buildings or something.  But from our hub in our office, located in 
building A, we connected a cable to a terminal block about 15 feet away in 
the terminal room.  From there it's patched into another terminal 
block.  Not sure if it's in that same room or if it terminates directly in 
building B, but the comment was made from the techs who visited today that 
it is patched four times before terminating.  In the terminal room in 
building B, there is a CAT 5, capped with RJ45 wall plate connector.  When 
you plug a laptop with ethernet card installed into this connector, there 
is nothing.  This same laptop resides in the server room in my office and 
gets connectivity.

Since I am not a cable or transmit/receive geek, I am unsure as to how this 
works or how come it doesn't.

Does this give anyone any more light?  Hope so, 'cause I need to get this 
done.  The first person that can help me with little or no expense gets the 
golden prize (not yet determined).  The person to call or contact here is 
Andrew Adams.

Thanks.

Kimi Adams
602-375-5363


At 9/28/01 02:11 PM, you wrote:
>Ethernet is good up to 350 feet, so if the parking lot is ~50 feet, unless
>both buildings are really huge I would think that the distance would be well
>within range.  The other thing that you could try and do if the buildings
>are indeed too big is put in a repeter or small hub at the edge of the
>buildings to boost your signal a little on either end.  Thats what we had to
>do at the school to get ethernet from the front corner building all the way
>to the back corner building where the plug meetings are held.
>
>Brian Cluff
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