Re: what tech?

[Kyle <kb57442@yahoo.com>]

  The old arc-net cards (about 1meg speed wise I
think) used to run on phone wire (even used the RJ11
jacks).  Each card had to either be terminated or
chained to another card.  You couldn't run a phone and
the network on the same cable though.  I can't count
the times the lan admin. used to come into my office
and ask if I'd been playing with the terminator again
:)  If you can find any of these cards they would
probably be less than dirt cheap... but I'm not sure
about the length restrictions.  I've run ethernet over
phone wire too..  stay at 10 meg and you might be able
to use existing phone lines (which are usually cat-3)
but once again you can't run the phone line on it at
the same time.

Kyle.


--- James <james@piku.org.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 06:09:00AM -0700, terry
> white wrote:
> | on "4-28-2002" "urgrue" writ:
> | 
> | : along normal copper wires
> |   
> |     a better bet would be coax ethernet.  if i
> recall correctly, longer
> | runs possible using it.  i just checked, and 200M
> the limit.  this also
> | reduces the wirecount to one.
> 
> Coax would probably also be dirt cheap since
> coax-based networking is
> old tech now :) (although its used a lot in CCTV
> systems) Just mind its
> minimum bending radius when bending it round things,
> a broken piece of
> coax is a nightmare.
> 
> |     further, i seem to recall a system that
> superimposed the data on
> | the power distribution system, and another that
> used existant phone
> | lines.
> 
> The power one would only work if everything was on
> the same phase and
> didn't go through any UPSs or filters.
> 
> Never heard of the phone one (well, it's called
> 'dsl'...) but I've
> heard of the opposite - running a phone line and
> network down one piece
> of cat5.
> 
> | from the sounds of it, neither of these
> applicable.  however, wireless
> | might be a way to go.  that, of course introduces
> security issues ...
> 
> It also has problems going through solid objects
> like concrete floors
> and walls.
> 
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