World record telephone extension

[Anonymous]

Is there any way to install a telephone into a building hundreds of metres from the nearest phone/socket/installation?

I imagine that the easy route would be to ask BT to lay a cable but this could costs thousands. Can a separate line be installed in the main residence (as BT already reach) and then somehow extend to the said building? Perhaps wireless, cable or fibre optics??

This might sound odd but we might be moving onto a farm where the renovated cottage is well away from the main building but we have to have telephone and Net connection (just to set the scene).

Cheers

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[Red Squirrel]

Yeah it would be possible I think. Unlike ethernet, telephone line can go pretty far without a repeater. I'm pretty sure anyway... Try it with a super long line to see if it affects quality, if not then you could dig and put it in, make sure to use anti moisture protected coating for it though. Not sure if you can even buy phone cables like that, but I would assume you could.

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[Anonymous]

I have been Googling a bit on the assumption that if I found a supplier of ultra long cable, then it should be feasible. Alas, I haven't found anything that even matches Cat 5.

Cat 5 is really only useful up to 100m but by all accounts, fibre optic cable is good for several hundred metres. Whether it can be used to extend a telephone/computer network is another question.

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[Red Squirrel]

Fiber would be the answer in youor case, but probably very expensive, since you need the multiplexer at both ends to turn the telephone electric signal into light and vise versa. But if you plan to send other traffic to the building such as internet, then it could be a good idea as you can just add more circuits to it.

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[Anonymous]

Thanks for that.

So would it be as simple as a box either end of the cable plus the configuring or would there be any extra hardware?

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[rovingcowboy]

last spring patrick norton on the screensavers did a story on how to build a cheap 15 cents wireless booster antenna for your wireless connection if you are not going to be that far away from the house with the phone connection you might beable to set up wireless and use one of them booster antennas?

see if you can find it in the archives at http://www.g4techtv.com look in the show archives for thescreensavers show.

good luck. or just get broadband satilite dish for phone and internet connections?



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[richardj]

The "category" system for UTP was devised a number of years ago to differentiate between the capacity of different grades of UTP to carry network traffic at different speeds. Categories 1 and 2 are obsolete, a brief description of Categories 3, 4 and 5 is as follows:



Category 3 (CAT3): essentially "voice grade" (telephone) cable, but capable of handling data traffic at a frequency of up to 15 MHz over a length of up to 100 meters.
Category 4 (CAT4): "data grade", capable of handling data and voice traffic at a frequency of up to 20 MHz over a length of up to 100 meters.

Category 5 (CAT5): "data grade", capable of handling data and voice traffic at a frequency of up to 100 MHz over a length of up to 100 meters.


Note that the information above speaks of frequencies (cycles per second), while a network's capacity (bandwidth) is usually expressed in terms of bits per second (or megabits per second). Ethernet, for example, whether 10Base2 or 10BaseT, is by definition a 10 megabit per second (Mb/s) network standard. If one signal cycle were used to encode and transmit one bit of actual data, then a network transmitting at 10 MHz would be capable of delivering a network data rate ("through-put") of 10 MB/s. However, networking engineers and designers have been able to continually increase the number of bits able to be encoded in a single cycle of the signal, so that in some networking schemes, through-puts as high as 1 Gb/s (gigabits per second) have been achieved over CAT5 cable at 100 MHz.

You would also need a lightning protector on each end.

Why not go with buried CAT5 cabling?

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