On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Michael Stearne wrote: > I figured wireless people do have a lot of experience with wires also. > > A friend of wants to wire a new construction house and says he is using > coaxial cable instead of Cat5/6 ethernet. Is there an advantage to using > coaxial (I'm sure speed) but Cat5/6 can do gigabit eithernet. > I would think this is more than enough speed for a home user for the > forseeable future. What are the advatages of coaxial? Your friend is smoking ajax.
Ethernet is cheap, easy to install, available equipment. Coax you can use either for CATV or for DS3 (or if you are smoking a lot of ajax, 10base5). Each of those is really not appealing option. -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
