Etzion Bar-Noy
Sun, 16 Sep 2001 13:26:15 -0700
About phone cables, I don't know. Ok, let's say a simple home network. How many computers? Two? Three? Assuming two: Cable-based network: two 10/100 NICs (100NIS both), two plugs (30NIS both), 50 meters cable (200NIS) - Total 330NIS. Wireless Network: Two wireless NICs (2000NIS both). Performance: Cable based - 100Mbit/sec Wireless: 11Mb/s Assuming three computers: Cable based (10Mb/s or 100Mb/s): Three NICs (150NIS total), 3 plugs (45NIS total), 100 meters cable (400NIS), hub 10 (250)/ hub 100 (450)/ switched hub 100 (1000). Total cost: 750 - 1600 NIS (for the right speed). Wireless based: 3 Wireless NICs (3000NIS total), one Access Point (about 1900NIS). Total - ~5000NIS for 11Mb/s network. Wireless networks are far from being cost efficient, for now. I agree that the more wireless clients there are, the price gets closer to standard port cost, but: 1) you can connect no more then 40 clients to each AP; 2) 11Mb/s divide by 40 end points brings you to a modem speed on your networks. And no, it is not a switched network, sorry. Conclusion: Nice dream, cheeky to the observers, but far from being cost efficient, or in any terms of resonable price. Ah... dreams... Ez. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tzafrir Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Etzion Bar-Noy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "mulix" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Stas Cherkassky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 10:21 PM Subject: Re: [Haifux] Re: OT: Where to buy home network > On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Etzion Bar-Noy wrote: > > > Yep. Anyone who sells 3com products, Cisco products etc. > > You'll find that Access Point costs about 1800NIS (in Israel, about 260USD), > > and that any wireless card costs about 1000 NIS (160USD). > > Expensive. Too expensive. > > > > Oh, did I mention slow? What will you do with 11Mb/sec? I find 100Mb/sec > > hardly sufficient. > > For what? for a simple home network? For X it is more than enough. For > most file transfers this is enough. If there aren't too many machines > sharing this bandwidth, then it is quite adaquent. > > One problem is that you can't "segmentize" this bandwidth (right?) > > BTW: what about using the phone wiring or the electricity wiring? > > -- > Tzafrir Cohen > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://linuxclub.il.eu.org) > To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://linuxclub.il.eu.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]