Frank Tanner III
pctech at mybellybutton.com
Mon May 19 07:29:10 CDT 2003
I highly recommend against this. Most telephone wiring in homes is CAT3 *AT BEST*. In alot of cases, not even that good. Most home telephone wiring is so splices and mickey-moused together that you will be lucky if you get any connection at all. And if you do, it will probably be spotty, at best, due to electromagenetic interferance from other devices. Network engineering is what I do for a living. I'd go wireless LONG before I'd trust home telco wiring for my LAN. Myself, I strung CAT5 in my house. But that's because I know how to. For most home users wireless would be a perfect fit. If you're worried about people leeching your bandwidth or "sniffing" off of your wireless LAN, there are ways to lock it down, simply. Will it stop the determined leech? Nope. But it would stop 90% of the leeches that are out there, because most are just looking for free bandwidth. Not to mention, I'd think you'd notice someone sitting in front of your house with a laptop....hehehee --- Rocky Smolin - Beach Access Software <bchacc at san.rr.com> wrote: > Dear List(s): > > Got a new computer to put into a room where we can't > reach it with CAT-5. So I've been ready to go > wireless, except someone suggested using the phone > lines in the house (just as a substitute wire) > instead of wireless. Apparently, there's a device > that will connect the NIC and the phone jack and you > can use the phone wires in the house for networking. > > Sounds, easy, and cheap, and low tech. Anyone know > about this? > > MTIA > > Rocky Smolin > Beach Access Software > > _______________________________________________ > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >