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On Sunday 08 August 2004 01:08 pm, Joey Dale wrote:
> I use a linksys router and was planing on having an old linux box with
> two nics convert CAT5 to thin net. So it would be after the firewall.
But why use such old and severly outdated technology?
You are not saving anything, really. Yeah I even forgot that this was not even
up to 10Mb. I have no recollection to much except it was a bit faster then
Apple's network. Throw away the cable, it's not even useful for TV as it has
the wrong impedance 50 Ohm vs 75. (or some such.)
> -Joey
>
> Eben King wrote:
> >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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Steve
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