How can I wire Cat 5 ethernet longer than 300 feet?

I have a client that is moving into a large warehouse and I have to
connect 1 computer that is over 400 feet away from the main office. I
also have to connect 4 RF scanner devices in the ceiling around the
warehouse. The problem here obviously is that all of these computers
and devices are well over 300 feet from the central office with the
switch. The computer and the RF devices all use RJ-45 ethernet
connections. My first question: How can I connect the RF devices and
computer back to the office? Can I use a repeater that can mount in
the ceiling of a warehouse to boost the signal down the Cat 5 wire?
How much are they and where can I buy them?

My second question deals with Fiber. The previous tenant at this
warehouse wired the remote office, where the computer is going, with a
fiber. The problem is that when they moved out, they simply cut the
ends off the fiber and removed their equipment. I don't know why they
cut the ends off. There is still plenty of slack remaining up in the
celing tiles. How hard is it to splice ends back onto fiber? How
much does the equipment cost to do so.

Any suggestions you guys have are greatly appreciated.

Dave Tirado

http://www.rad-direct.com/Applicatio...ver-copper.htm

10B2/coax would also get you to 185M if the application won't suffer from the slower 10m speeds.


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> over 400 feet away from the main office.

On 6 Feb 2004 13:05:11 -0800, (E-Mail Removed) (David Tirado) wrote:

>I have a client that is moving into a large warehouse and I have to
>connect 1 computer that is over 400 feet away from the main office. I
>also have to connect 4 RF scanner devices in the ceiling around the
>warehouse. The problem here obviously is that all of these computers
>and devices are well over 300 feet from the central office with the
>switch. The computer and the RF devices all use RJ-45 ethernet
>connections. My first question: How can I connect the RF devices and
>computer back to the office? Can I use a repeater that can mount in
>the ceiling of a warehouse to boost the signal down the Cat 5 wire?
>How much are they and where can I buy them?

Are the 4 scanners and the one computer within 300 feet of a point within 300
feet of the main switch?

If so, a cheap four-port soho switch spotted at that nexus, uplinked to the
main switch, would do the trick.

>My second question deals with Fiber. The previous tenant at this
>warehouse wired the remote office, where the computer is going, with a
>fiber. The problem is that when they moved out, they simply cut the
>ends off the fiber and removed their equipment. I don't know why they
>cut the ends off. There is still plenty of slack remaining up in the
>celing tiles. How hard is it to splice ends back onto fiber? How
>much does the equipment cost to do so.

I imagine you could Google an answer to that just as quickly as I could ;-)

/daytripper (terminating fiber is one task I've yet to try...)