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Wiring a Neighborhood?
mklencke writes "I'm part of a project that is developing a small neighborhood of about 30 houses in the Netherlands with technology, durability and ecological features in mind. We are looking at centralizing the Internet, TV, phone and radio access. Options we have come across are a central satellite dish, a central subscriber line, etc. Preferably, fiber optics will be used. However, it is very difficult to have a good overview of possibilities, and fiber optics technology is apparently very expensive to implement. Have any Slashdot readers been engaged in a similar project? Do you have hints or resources on how to go about wiring our neighborhood?"
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Here's thought: Run CB cable to each house. Use a BNC Y adapters to split the cable at each house. Wrap the y adapters in waterproof tape. Plug in a 802.11g router into the CB cable. Since this is a closed system with proper shielding the 802.11 shouldn't have much of a distance limitation.
You could use old BNC network adapters but I figure you could better performance out of 802.11g devices. Also the cable should be pretty cheap. Especially if you get it in bulk.
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Ok, here is my solution going from the user level to the core of your network. Infrared port on PC to Infrared Network Gateway module setup in each room (I'm not sure these exist, but work with me here). INGM has RS530 serial connection back to Cisco 6509 switch. (Make sure you put redundant Sup720's for native IPv6 switching.) If security is important you can use some KIV-19 or KG-195 bulk encryption devices on your serial connection. Oh yeah, you'll need some kind of stratum 1 clock source to injected timing into your INGM. We don't want any slips on that line. Then to connect everybody's 6509, I would run some coax and fire up some Token Ring. I have similar setup in my duplex and it works like a charm.
Fiber TO the neighbourhood,
;)
ONE fiber2cat5-transceiver-thingy,
routers and cat5 IN the neighbourhood.
My guess is it's cheaper (and we're dutch
who invented the iron wire?
the dutch. two men were fightng over 5 cents.
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The Netherlands is pretty flat except for those buildings and homes that stick up and block line of sight transmissions. I'm sure that a neighborhood won't have those pesky buildings, trees and similar things that could potential block line of sight to people's homes.
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To avoid bottlenecks and critical points of failure, I think a decentralized and redundant architecture would be more favorable.
I suppose it would be better if a nuclear strike on your neighbours didn't take down your KaZaA downloads...
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