Richard,
I just went through this at home. Not fully operational as yet, having problems with the Firewall and Proxy Server allowing client access to the internet through my one cable modem.
That said, I wired CAT 5 to each room in the house. I took half the wires for Ethernet (2 pair) and half for the phone (the other 2 pair). So far, I am not having any noticeable performance problems between phone and Ethernet.
Your phone lines may or may not be CAT 3, depends on who put them in and when. Yes, you probably will be able to operate 10 MB on them without too much trouble. But I personally would not do it unless it was impossible to run additional CAT 5 wiring. CAT 5 is cheap, easy, and will be good for a while. In fact, if running new wire today, I would run CAT5e to aim at the gigabit end of the spectrum.
Yes, there should be ways to restrict your I/F to run 10BaseT. I just did that for mine but don't recall just now where the setting is. Probably in the Properties for your NIC. If you need more info, let me know and I'll figure out what I did.
I believe Wireless is slower than hard wired. I would not choose that route for that reason, but also because as an EMI engineer, I do not really feel like adding more stray fields running around my house. I have enough already. And, I do not know enough about the standards (or lack thereof) to comment further.
Let me know how you fare. Scott At 01:30 PM 6/21/02 -0400, [email protected] wrote:
I want to upgrade my 1MB/sec home network that uses my phone line. I have several choices, but would like to hear from others before I make the leap. 1) I understand that 10MB/sec Ethernet will operate on Cat 3 twisted pair and that normal phone wiring is Cat 3. If use my existing phone wiring (multiple pairs running all over the house) what are the chances that I will have interference coupled to my telephone or vice versa? 2) If I use a 10/100 MB network interface card, are there options to force the network to operate at 10MB? 3) My other option is go wireless, but there are two competing standards RF and 801.11b. Some reviews indicate that the latter may soon be replaced by another 801 standard. Also, some reviews indicate that 801 is not as good a product as one would be lead to believe.Is wireless networking in the home effective and if so, which standard should I use. Thanks, Richard Woods Sensormatic Electronics Tyco International ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: [email protected] Dave Heald: [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ Click on "browse" and then "emc-pstc mailing list"
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