[ale] phone-line networking

[James P. Kinney III]

I fumble-fingered and deleted the thread on this (oops).

A 1000' box of cat5e is $60 at Home Depot. They also have wall plates,
cat5e sockets, plugs and crimpers. A person needs to only spend about
$125, and they have all the parts needed to install an 8 connection LAN.
Add a 10/100 autosensing switch for $50, and you'll never regret it. 

Having seen the phone-net stuff in action a few time, it is really not
worth the money. The through-put to cost ratio is really poor for the
phone net. That same ratio for ethernet is great and getting better.

The only really good reason for using the phone-net is in an apartment.
But then, running cat5 at the baseboards and under carpet is really
easy.
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