Laser Links

[john]

The way I see it is if a job is worth doing, and clearly this link is going to be used, its worth doing it properly otherwise you will spend your life chasing after it. You could try and tie in the fibre optics with something like future VOIP teleco provisions to the building, CCTV provisions and anything else where the fibre may be used.

[Ric_]

Another option might be to get a company in to lay a conduit for you, which would mean that you could get a cheaper networking company to lay the fibre. Just a thought

[Simcfc73]

On the subject of overhead cabling, I used it last year to cable two buildings on the very cheap. We were having a building renovated so we asked the guys to put up the catenary and drill the holes into the building and I run the route inside and connected everything.

 

The catenary wire cost me £40 and external grade cat5 was £60 for 305m.

 

Had to do it in a rush so there's a few sags which looks pants but I ran 3 wires across and so theres some redundancy.

[ChrisH]

You would do very well to run it without any kinks, especially with three cables im sure it's fine

[MkII]

What about asking BT to run a fibre for you MrL? - they could run it in thier existing conduit.