Re: [SLUG] coaxial ethernet

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Sun Aug 08 2004 - 12:57:34 EDT


On Sun, 8 Aug 2004, Steve Szmidt wrote:

> On Saturday 07 August 2004 08:04 pm, Joey Dale wrote:
> >
> > I just got about 200ft of coaxial ethernet cable (RG85) with N
> > connecters, and would like to hook my buddy into my network (A reason to
> > justify a 6/4 MB/s pipe).

> Running at 10MB might seem better than not at all, but I'd rather save
> up the few tens of dollars to buy twisted pair technology, and run at
> 100MB.

Well, the bottleneck would probably be the internet connection, not the 10
Mbps NIC. Actually what was written was "6/4 MB/s"; I'm not sure what
that means. 6 MB/s down and 4 MB/s up, B=bytes and b=bits?

The other points are valid though.

> I may have missed the jest of this story. Are you suggesting letting him
> share your cable connection? In that case you should also do that AFTER
> the firewall. Conectiong another cable box to the cable WILL be detected
> by Brighthouse engineers.

Sure, and it's much easier (and cheaper) to add a router than another
cable box.

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