Kimi, I'm out of town at the moment so I can't help locally (I'm in Australia right now) but I have done this several times in the past. Here are ways to get this done. 1) Using the existing wire use 10Base T not 100Base T That will give you 10Mbit between the buildings and 10Base T is MUCh more forgiving then 100Base T. That will use 2 pairs of wire. You must use pairs not just any 4 wires. Once you get that running get several pairs of pairs and use Linux boxes to bond 10Mbit channels and aggrate as much bandwidth as you need/want....20Mbit - 40Mbit etc. It only takes CAT 3 for 10Base T vs CAT 5 for 100Base T also 10Base T goes 10x further then 100BaseT distance with no interference. 2) Using pairgain (sp? check google for SDSL devices) you can get 2.4Mbit per pair SDSL between the buildings, all you need is what you have dry, copper. 3) Skip the wire and use 2.4 Gig wireless cards with semi directional antenna's and get 11Mbit per channel, at your distance it is easy I've got 300 ft coverge at my house with an omni directional antenna. Cost is about 125 per card. Good Luck, if you are still having problems next week, I'll be back in town and can help directly. Cheers, Davidm -----Original Message----- From: Kimi A. Adams [mailto:kimi@unitywave.com] Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 2:36 PM To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: Serious cabling problem 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 > >________________________________________________ >See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't >post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > >PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us >http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss ________________________________________________ See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss