Extending network over a dry pair

[goemon at sasami.anime.net (Dan Hollis)]

I doubt he will get >1.5mbps with those over a 6 mile long connection.

I did a quick check and flowpoint 2200s seem to max out at 192kbps at 3 
miles.

-Dan

On Wed, 12 Dec 2018, Tim Pozar wrote:

> For dry pairs, I have used Flowpoint SDSL modems (see attached).  I
> picked these up for a sawbuck.
>
> Tim
>
> On 12/12/18 5:00 PM, Dan Hollis wrote:
>> On Wed, 12 Dec 2018, Nick Bogle wrote:
>>> A quick question for you guys;
>>>
>>> If you had a single dry pair (pair of copper wires originally for phones)
>>> to a remote site that was around 6 miles away, what would you use? We
>>> currently are just extending a T1 line to this site, but 1.5Mbps isn't
>>> cutting it anymore. Unfortunately it's a research site on a federally
>>> protected wildlife preserve so we can't run any new infrastructure (fiber
>>> etc) and it isn't in a geographical place where point to point
>>> wireless is
>>> practical. We were thinking there is some sort of network extender that
>>> uses some form of DSL for higher bandwidth capacity.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> If this is telco provided dry pair then the distance is probably longer
>> than 6 miles as the endpoints are probably tied together through a telco
>> CO.
>>
>> I have not heard of any equipment which will work over a 6 mile pair any
>> faster than you're getting with T1.
>>
>> You might consider setting up wireless repeaters to bridge where there
>> is no direct LOS. Look at what the hamwan guys have done.
>> http://hamwan.org/
>>
>> -Dan
>