David VanHorn wrote:
> Comcast came out today to fix their problem that had my phones showing
> "disconnected number" for two days.
>
> In the process, their guy picked up my twisted pair cable that runs between
> the two houses, and cut it into multiple pieces, and then went inside and
> threatened my wife.
>
> Now I completely understand that they don't want me sharing the cable signal
> over radio-shack rg-59 with the neighborhood, but obviously twisted pair
> ethernet does not have any similar problems.
>
> I'm really pissed at this vandalism of my equipment, and the way he treated
> my wife.
> I was here, but in the office, and apparently he didn't feel like dealing
> with me.
>
> Comcast is telling me that they won't allow me to run "a wire" between the
> two houses.
> I wonder what they will do when I co\mplete my tower installation and have
> multiple runs of LMR-400 and LDF4-50 between the two houses, as well as
> control cables, alarm, etc ?  :)
>
> In the meantime, I need something wireless that is reliable, and will couple
> the lan on one side to the lan on the other side, over a distance of roughly
> 10'
>   
IR emitter/receiver pairs? They are not visible normally. For just 10' 
they don't even need to be modulated.
I have seen T1 chips mux at 100M speeds.

Otherwise, why not just bury the wires? They can't track down 
everything, can they? Its not illegal to run
wires between buildings on your own property. What are they thinking?

--Bob
> I could run wifi on the individual computers, but relative to my gigabit
> lan, it's slower than snail snot in january.
> Any ideas?  I have a pair of Belkin wifi routers, and other common wifi bits
> and pieces, but I've never tried to get them to work in this manner.
>
>
>
>   

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