On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 22:32, rpgoldman at real-time.com wrote: > Maybe I'm not doing the right thing --- I'm just trying to avoid > pulling wire through two stories of lath and plaster. I don't really > need roaming wireless. Is there a more economical way to avoid > pulling wire? Or am I somehow reading these product sheets wrong? Well, there are networking technologies that work over the power lines and phone lines already in the walls. I'm not sure how well that hardware works with Linux, or how cost-competitive it is with 802.11b. I'm pretty sure you'd get similar data rates (on the order of 10Mbit/s). Pulling Cat5 or better wire guarantees 100Mbit/s traffic (provided you have the right cards and hubs/switches). This is a nice big jump, making it so accessing another computer is almost as fast as getting files locally. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ He's dim, Jed / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020919/ce532da4/attachment.pgp