From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 7 14:43:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA11914 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 7 May 1996 14:43:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from paloalto.access.hp.com (daemon@paloalto.access.hp.com [15.254.56.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA11889 for ; Tue, 7 May 1996 14:43:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from srmail.sr.hp.com by paloalto.access.hp.com with ESMTP (1.37.109.16/15.5+ECS 3.3) id AA081135410; Tue, 7 May 1996 14:43:31 -0700 Received: from hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com by srmail.sr.hp.com with ESMTP (1.37.109.16/15.5+ECS 3.3) id AA136595409; Tue, 7 May 1996 14:43:30 -0700 Received: from mina.sr.hp.com by hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com with SMTP (1.37.109.16/15.5+ECS 3.3) id AA299235409; Tue, 7 May 1996 14:43:29 -0700 Message-Id: <199605072143.AA299235409@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com> To: "Brett L. Hawn" Cc: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Home networks (or 10Base-T ways to annoy your spouse) In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 May 1996 16:17:43 CDT." Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 14:43:28 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Tue, 7 May 1996, Darryl Okahata wrote: > > > For "home networks", 10BT is easier to wire. Right now, I'm using > > 10B2, and I'm thinking about switching to 10BT, as routing coax from > > room to room is a real pain (e.g., you need two jacks per room, and > > there's more wire to route). > > You'll also find that its more centralized with the 10bT since everything > goes to a single hub and you don't have coax looping all over the place. Thanks for saying what I attempted to say. ;-) > > It is cheap, though. > > The cost of reliable cat5 is so low as to be almost no different than the > cost of good 50/75ohm coax so I just can't see that as an argument anymore > :) It's cheaper because you don't have to buy a hub with 10B2 -- I wasn't thinking about the cabling costs. However, snaking coax hither and yon is enough of a pain that 10BT is looking real good, even with the added expense (I'd probably get an 8-port hub and not a cheap 5-port one, just for future expansion ;-). However, with 10BT, you do have to plan out how many PC's will go into a room, as it's a pain to (for example) add a second PC to a room if you only have one 10BT cable coming out of the wall .... It's much simpler with coax. -- Darryl Okahata Internet: darrylo@sr.hp.com DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Hewlett-Packard, or of the little green men that have been following him all day.