Networking between 2 buildings?

[krisd32]

just had a request to find out what is the best way to communicate between 2 buildings, there is only a 10m gap or so between them so i was askin for advice on what would be the fatest way to do this?

[Geoff]

Fastest way would be a trench and fibre.

[plexer]

How many computers in the other building?
As it's only 10m throw some cat5 across the gap <--- joke

Laser probably your best bet if you don't want to run a fibre across there.

Ben

[plexer]

But by fast do you mean installation speed or speed of the resulting link?

Ben

[ChrisC]

I would of said that, are the buildings already there or is it a new build?
*By that I mean fibre*

Also, is the 10m gap not counting the disatance to the nearest switch etc?

Chris

[Dos_Box]

Fibre gets my vote too.

[Jake]

Fibre or External cat5 would be my choices

[Geoff]

As it's only 10m throw some cat5 across the gap

That'd would cause a ground loop.

[StewartKnight]

external CAT5 shouldn't be used to join 2 building together

[plexer]

Yes which is why the answer was

As it's only 10m throw some cat5 across the gap <--- joke

I wouldn't advocate external or internal grade cat5 as a solution to bridge buildings ever as I've said in previous topics on this subject.

Ben

[Disease]

Why?

[ChrisC]

We have fibres hanging from the roofs of all the buildings here.....

Chris

[Jake]

Thats why I said they would be *my* choices

[krisd32]

I thought fibre would be the choice! the building was put up about 5 years ago or so, there will only be about 3 sockets for teachers only going in as it is only a small building! what are the speeds like with a wireless bridge between them? the nearest cabinet to that point is quite a distance thinking about it!

[Geoff]

Why?

As I said, you'd get a ground loop as the buildings aren't electrically connected. Net result is really bad SNR on the data connection.