[ale] phone-line networking

[Tom & JaVonn]

James:

The economics of CAT5 are great.  It's the logistics that scared them off.  Connecting the 2nd floor office on the west side with the basement office on the east side.  We mumbled about dropping cable out the window...

Besides, they've already invested in the HPN stuff, now I'm trying to make the best of it.

Tom

On 07 Sep 2002 21:18:10 -0400
"James P. Kinney III" <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:

> 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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