On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 craig@ctrust.com wrote:
> On 14 Jul 2004 at 15:50, Mark Polhamus wrote:
>
> > Just moved into a new place, and along with all the cable tv coax wiring,
> > there appears to be couple runs of 75 Ohm "thicknet" coax (10base5??). I
> > would like to use this cable to connect a downstairs network to my cable
> > modem/router upstairs. Probably just a ReplayTV unit -- just for the channel
> > guide, not for streaming video.
> >
> > Is there any cheap way to do this? Some sort of 10baseT<->10base5 media
> > converter on each end? Anyone know how, and where to get the hardware?
>
> Unless it is secured to the walls somehow, I would
> suggest you just tie the Cat5 to it and use the
> coax to pull the cat5 into place. You'll be saving
> yourself a number of headaches in the future.
Tie the Cat 5{,e} well to the coax; you very much don't want it to come
loose partway through.
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