Hmm, this stuff was installed along time ago before my time here and I know very little about fiber. I dont know how many fibers are in each wire. Is there some marking on the wire I can look for that might tell me? Its orange :) hehe All I know is that there is 4 physical pieces running under the alley. Currently we are only using 2 of the wires, 1 pair. I think they work in pairs? One for send and one for receive?! Is this what you are calling multimode? I am told the other pair are backups. But if we could bond the two or use both, we should just use them since they are run and unused. Seems silly to just leave them sit there. I am trying to learn more about this stuff. If anyone has any links or other source of info that would be great. Thanks Eric! Eric Ebner wrote: >Here is an option that is just really an upgrade from what you are currently >using: >http://www.transition.com/products/mcon_platform/standalone/gigabit/index.ht >m > >You may want to see if you can push multimode over your fiber. If you need >more bandwidth a upgrade from single to multi sometimes is the ticket, >however can be expensive. > >How many fibers are in you wire? Two? Four? You may also want to look into >segmenting your network, taking the computers that talk to each other the >most at each building and placing them on a separate segment. > >Just some thoughts, let me know if you want more. > >Eric > > > 23/12/2003 10:41, "Jason Jorgensen" <jasonj at igi.com> wrote: > > > >>We have fiber running between our 2 office buildings. On each end of the >>fiber we have one of these devices to convert to ethernet >>http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?ProductID=247614 >> >>Basically it looks like a fiber (BNC connections) to RJ-45 converter. >> >>We are pretty sure the fiber should support 1000base with no problems. >>So I am looking for a drop in replacement for the 100base converter >>units. Or some local consultant or company we could get out here to put >>new ends on the fiber for a non-drop in replacement converter. >> >>Other suggestions and comments welcome. >> >>_______________________________________________ >>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> >> > > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list