Re: what tech?

[James <james@piku.org.uk>]

On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 01:46:47AM +0300, urgrue wrote:

| is there something like dsl, but cheaper, that would be appropriate for 
| getting a connection along normal copper wires at relatively short 
| distances (a few hundred meters at most?
| just plain old ethernet is almost sufficient, but the distances im talking 
| about would require slightly more, and it would be better if it didnt need 
| two pairs of wire. speed is not important, even half a meg is okay.
| dsl is too expensive for this purpose, and overkill anyway.
| 
| basically the point is to run connections through an apartment building. 
| what would be appropriate?

Well if it's through a building and not across open fields, etc then
ethernet is probably the cheapest. When you reach the 100-and-whatever
metre limit of cat5, just stick a cheap 2 port hub on the end, and
continue the wire for another 100m. And if speed's not important, a
10Mbit network will run further than a 100Mbit one with fewer errors.

This is probably how large offices cable themselves up.

And if you can push one wire through the wall, whatever, you can easily
push two (besides, a piece of cat5 isn't that thick, no thicker than
regular phone wire you'd be using for dsl, and it's fairly cheap too).

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