Re: wireless lan

["Robert G. Brown" <bob@xxxxxxx>]

>>    In the second instance, you have to drill through the outside wall,
>>running the cable between the buildings, supporting the cable through
>>the air, etc. You could bury the cable, but I'm not aware of a CAT-5
>>cable that's made to be buried, then again I'm sure someone makes it!
>>Bottom line, it can get involved to run a CAT-5 cable between buildings.

> If the two buildings are owned by seperate entities (persons or
><corporations) or you cross a municipal easment the above is very
>possibly illegal.  Typically if you bury twisted pair you run it through
>a PVC conduit,  as you can seal them pretty reliably so it doesn't fill
>with water.

This started as a question about wireless communications, and I marvel at
how it has morphed into an oracle of legal-and-construction advise! :)
What's been lost in this (informative, when I install a LAN on my farm
I'll call you guys! :) is that Wes's Lan is for Dunbar hall (one building
on the WMU campus). Even if we wants to connect other buildings, it is
reasonable to beleive that all of them are WMU buildings, or the (I'm 
sure) formidible WMU legal department can clarify these issues. That 
said, we don't know what same legal eagles will have to say about punching
holes in Dunbar to run cable, or even if that's nessesary.

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