On 07/08/10 17:32, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Absolutely Bob. About the practical Maximum Usable Frequency of coax is in > the 2.2 Ghz range, and that is for 1.625 inch heliax or better yet, rigid. > About $7 to $12/foot, used. I have used smaller stuff, but at 1.5Ghz > ranges, with buckets of powered gain on the sending end, it can make it 300 > feet still strong enough to drive a 950-1450mhz satellite receiver over > quad shielded RG11. Those teeny little cables they put on so-called 7DBI > antennas actually have a loss of several DB/meter. I have one of those, > tested at about + 0.5 DB over the cards rubber ducky at its best placement. > Needless to say, any connectivity I have in the attached workshop, > separated from here by 3 walls, one of which still has the alu house siding > on it, is by way of a 150 foot cat5 cable to the outbuilding my cnc mill is > in, thru a 100base-t hub out there, and another 100 foot of cat5 across the > yard and in a side window of the garage. PIMA, but it works. That first > 150 footer has been strung overhead, swinging in the wind for at least 6 > years now, and in fact survived a wind on June 24 that took down 3 of the 5 > mature trees on my property, and measured 112 mph on a recording anemometer > about a block away, downwind. I am amazed that a common piece of Belden > blue cat5, right out of a 1000' box, is still working, but it is. > > [root@coyote linux-2.6.35.1]# ping shop > PING shop.coyote.den (192.168.71.4) 56(84) bytes of data. > 64 bytes from shop.coyote.den (192.168.71.4): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.76 > ms > 64 bytes from shop.coyote.den (192.168.71.4): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.142 > ms > 64 bytes from shop.coyote.den (192.168.71.4): icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.140 > ms > Those look like good numbers, better than I am getting through 15 ft and a gigabit switch. I hope the format doesn't get mangled? [bobg@box9 ~]$ ping -c3 192.168.1.48 PING 192.168.1.48 (192.168.1.48) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.1.48: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.796 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.48: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.144 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.48: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.161 ms --- 192.168.1.48 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2000ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.144/0.367/0.796/0.303 ms -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines