nickoedwards
IS-IT--Management
Hi,
I have a technical issue with a side question. Basically we have 2 warehouses and are circa 90m apart in a residential area. At the moment we're running a VPN between the 2 but its not proving reliable / fast enough.
We've looked at optic fibre but as you can imagine we going to have to run a cable over some residential roofs etc. Long story short we'd thought we'd try Cat6 first. Although the warehouses are 90m, switch to switch will exceed 100m.
I know over 100m is not recommended but to have to the best chances of succeeding i'm looking for advice. We have 2 Dell Powerconnect 3248's (we're on a budget and bought them off ebay).
Would it literally be a case of plugging in the cable to each one and hoping it connects? Would you add a repeater in the mixer or would straight switch to switch be powerful enough?
Thanks in advance. Nick.
I have a technical issue with a side question. Basically we have 2 warehouses and are circa 90m apart in a residential area. At the moment we're running a VPN between the 2 but its not proving reliable / fast enough.
We've looked at optic fibre but as you can imagine we going to have to run a cable over some residential roofs etc. Long story short we'd thought we'd try Cat6 first. Although the warehouses are 90m, switch to switch will exceed 100m.
I know over 100m is not recommended but to have to the best chances of succeeding i'm looking for advice. We have 2 Dell Powerconnect 3248's (we're on a budget and bought them off ebay).
Would it literally be a case of plugging in the cable to each one and hoping it connects? Would you add a repeater in the mixer or would straight switch to switch be powerful enough?
Thanks in advance. Nick.