Michael Stearne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did write on Tue Jan 10 15:15: "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? Thanks, Michael"
-- Often times a resident or home owner will find themselves with existing, sometimes excessive coaxial cabling, either from an earlier pre-build or due to abandonment of the cable by a previous cable tv service providre. In either case there are opportunities to re-use the existing cables for Ethernet in lieu of laying new Category 5 or 6 through the use of adapters that meet industry requirements. Coaxsys is one such outfit making these adapters, and there are several others of note. You can read about this approach in the following article from Broadband Properties Magazine: Campus-Wide IP Television and VoIP By Ted Archer, Coaxsys http://www.broadbandproperties.com/2005issues/jul05issues/archer_july.pdf While this particular article focuses on campuses, the same principles and the same types of adapters apply to residential dwellings, as well. You may wish to make note of this BBP publication, since it is fast rising as one of the premier publications that focus on home- and municipal- networking of all types. As to the question of the amount of speed that is 'enough', I ask that you draw a trend line of the bandwidth that you've had at your disposal over the past ten years or so, and then you tell me how much you'll need in the next two or three. Frank ps - note - this is my second attempt at posting this article -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
