<jon@dakota-truck.net> wrote in message
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>
> "Josh Battles" <jbattles@bankfinancial.com> wrote:
> : "Terrible Tom" <SilverEightynine@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> [...]
> :> Also - I was discussing with Jon, the possibility of a wireless DML BBQ
> :> Web Cast from The Pit this year. I could do it - using some of my
> :> computer equipment and a DC-to-AC converter - however the cost is
> :> totally prohibitave. I estimated it would cost at least $1700 to
> :> purchase the additional wireles equipment and antennas etc. Maybe in a
> :> few years we can pull it off... when the cost comes down.
>
> : what kind of distance would it be to go from "the PIT" to DML HQ???
cables
> : are cheap you know... we've got a 1000' spool of cat5 laying around here
at
> : work somewhere...
>
>
> Technically, you're only supposed to go just less than 330 feet
> with twisted pair 10BaseT. I'm sure it works longer than that, but
> I've never tried it so I don't know how much longer. :-)
>
> The distance from the DML HQ to the pit is somewhere around 1500 feet.
hmmm... that does pose a slight problem. i'd be willing to bet that we
could probably pull 400-500 feet fairly reliably, but 1500? i don't think
so. it was a good thought though. anyone got satellite internet and a
laptop?
-- -Josh 2000 Dakota CC 3.9L
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