Nick L

I need to connect two houses together in order to share an internet connection among other things. Line of sight is terrible due in part to property between the two houses being wooded, however I have secured the permission of the property owner to run a cable across their property and I have several spools of Ca5e cable, however the length rules out Ethernet without any complicated repeaters or special wiring. Since speed isn't a big issue I thought the best way would be to use a T1. What I do have is a bunch of Cisco equipment, on my end a Cisco 3660 with a NM-ATM-4T1 and on the other end I have a few Cisco 1721s that I can buy a T1 Wic for. I have never really worked a custom T1 run so I have a few questions:

1. Is cat5e suitable for a 400' run using T1's signaling?

2. Are the Network modules and Wics able to handle the loading of a long wire length or would I require external DSUs?

3. Is there a better way of doing this? By better I mean cheaper as this project get basic internet access to the daughter of a woman escaping an drunk/abusive husband. Her money is tied up in a divorce and I cannot afford to put much more then my time into it as I am dealing with a slow economy.

4. Any other ideas or suggestions.

Thanks!