- Jul 19, 2004
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Hey guys, I have a question for yas. I imagine this may turn out to be too complex a setup, but my wife and I are going to be building a house about 900-1000ft away from my parents house on their property. In the rural area we live we only have one realistic internet solution that required me to erect a 70ft tower on my parents property. I dont like the idea of erecting a second tower for me when we build, and I would love to have our two houses on the same LAN network so they could directly access my home server. At this distance it seems my only route would be to run a fibre optic cable between the houses, he has a tractor so we can properly bury the cable and do that without too much of a hassle. My question is, can the houses be networked together that we could share his internet connection across the fibre network and hopefully be on the same lan/subnet? If we were able to obtain any sort of good internet I wouldnt even entertain this idea but we cant.
If I were to lay the cable, what sort of equipment is needed to terminate the fibre at the houses and convert back to cat6 to our routers/switches? Also, there seems to be a lot of specs on fibre, and I am not overly sure what I should be looking for. We are about 2 years out on this project but I am trying to figure this out so I can budget accordingly.
The internet my parents currently have is 3mb down and .25 up. They can get 5mb/.640up from the same provider which I currently have with the same ISP. The isp is horrible though and on the current 5mb plan I speedtest at a whopping 0.6mbps down. There is another ISP we could get with his tower that would be 10mbps down and 1mbps up which would be great for us.
Any information would be fantastic.
Thanks
Slimline
If I were to lay the cable, what sort of equipment is needed to terminate the fibre at the houses and convert back to cat6 to our routers/switches? Also, there seems to be a lot of specs on fibre, and I am not overly sure what I should be looking for. We are about 2 years out on this project but I am trying to figure this out so I can budget accordingly.
The internet my parents currently have is 3mb down and .25 up. They can get 5mb/.640up from the same provider which I currently have with the same ISP. The isp is horrible though and on the current 5mb plan I speedtest at a whopping 0.6mbps down. There is another ISP we could get with his tower that would be 10mbps down and 1mbps up which would be great for us.
Any information would be fantastic.
Thanks
Slimline