[aclug-L] Re: Home Network

[Nate <njcozzen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Check out the Tut HomeRun.  It's the perfect little gizmo for the home
networker who doesn't want to lay ethernet cable all over his rental/temporary
house.  It's an external box that takes the other end of your ethernet cable,
and then plugs into your phone line.  It converts the signal to a 2Mhz signal
that doesn't interfere with normal phone service, so it can operate over the
top of your ISP connection or voice conversation.  It'll give you 1Mbps.
There's an internal and an external version.  The internal has an ethernet card
built-in.  ZDNet didn't give it rave reviews at first because they were looking
at the cost of having to buy ethernet cards for every computer.  For those of
us that already have them though, this is great because it doesn't matter what
operating systems you're trying to connect.  If it can use ethernet, it can use
this little jobby.  The down side is that this is still new technology and it's
still a little pricy.  I pretty well spelled it all out, but if you want more,
check out this link.

http://www.zdnet.com/products/stories/reviews/0,4161,340012,00.html

Nate Cozzens


John Alexander wrote:

> Diamond just announced a network that does 10Mb (maybe 12, cobwebs getting
> in the way :-) ) in your house/office, using phone wire. They transduce
> radio signals onto the wire, at a very low power, so it won't interfere with
> your phone conversations, but wouldn't allow you to use it for dsl or any
> kind of long range connectivity like that. Sorry, don't have a web address,
> but you should be able to find it using diamond or a phrase like 'home
> phonewire network' or 'hpn', which is the group that is working on
> developing a standard for this kind of connectivity.
>
> ja
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: aclug-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:aclug-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> > Behalf Of Jonathan Hall
> > Sent: Sunday, October 17, 1999 7:17 PM
> > To: aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [aclug-L] Re: Home Network
> >
> >
> > Uhm... Phone wiring won't do any good, unless you want a REALLY REALLY
> > REALLY slow network.  (You might be able to buy some DSL equipment that
> > would let you run faster than 33.6k over phone lines in the same house...
> > but that would be more hassle than running your own ethernet cable, and
> > would cost a lot more, and would be a lot slower still)
> >
> > Your best bet is to run some ethernet cabling of some sort.  It's not too
> > difficult.  :-)
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Nate wrote:
> >
> > >     I'm trying to network a couple computers within my home, but I don't
> > > want them to be in the same room and I'd like to avoid having to throw
> > > cable.  I only have one phone line with the telephone company, but my
> > > house has the wiring for another.  Is there a way to utilize the extra
> > > phone wiring I already have in my house?  I thought maybe I could use
> > > modems in each computer to do the talking.  Would I be able to share
> > > files and printers doing it that way?  Is there software that would
> > > allow this kind of setup to work?  I might be networking a Microsoft
> > > machine to my Linux machine, so it would have to be something that works
> > > for both.
> > >
> > > What do you think?  Could this work, or am I just smoking pot?
> > >
> > > Any other ideas that might work easier?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Nate Cozzens
> > >
> > >
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