on 10/8/01 4:06 AM, Ben Smith (QM Systems) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: PCI PowerMacs >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf >> Of Chris Myers >> Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 11:59 PM >> To: PCI PowerMacs >> Subject: Question of speed coax vs. cat 5 >> >> >> Ok, rather simple question to a lot of you here. Over say 50ft. >> which would be a faster transfer medium: coax cable or Cat >> 5 ethernet? >> >> I'm trying to decide if I'd do better on speed to leave the cable >> modem downstairs and run ethernet instead of use and splicer and >> connecting two runs of coax. >> >> Chris >> -- > Makes no difference at 10mb, (at least it will not on a small (under > 25 computers) network) > However with co-ax you cannot upgrade to 100mb, you are best off > installing cat5 utp as you can then upgrade from 10 to 100mb in the > future. > Ben. > Personally I would pick CAT5 any day to COAX. I have my cable modem in the basement conected to a Linksys router wich in turn is connected to a Netgear 8 port 10/100 switch. I have multiple computers both PC and MAC that connect to the internet using this setup and it is VERY reliable. My main PC is in my room 2 floors up and cat5 cable works fine there 100mbs full duplex. the thing about coax is its a pain to add other computers to the network, if a terminator is disconected the whole network dies, also bandwith is 10mbs max and shared between all the computers on it. Switches and Nics are so cheap these days (so is cat5 wire and tools) that I dont see why anybody would run coax all over thier house.
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