On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Stephen Carville wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, you wrote:
> -On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, you wrote:
> -> Yes but you can rig up a serial link (better yet a parallel link) with
> -> spare speaker wire and get better than floppy speeds with out the floppy
> -> inconvienence.
> ->
> -Ah. Ok. I can see this....however, even standard telephone
> -cable ought to be useable for an ethernet link between a
> -couple of computers in one room (assuming that's what the
> -original poster was talking about.) You won't get the
> -distance you would with CAT5 cable, but it SHOULD work....
>
> Most telephone cable these days is Category 3 so it should work
> correctly with 10 Mbps just like real ethernet cable.
Thats true, i got a nice 200 + some odd foot length from the last phone
guy they sent me :)
> --
> Stephen Carville
> --
> Operating complicated machinery whilst possessed of the
> cognitive powers of a sea slug and the disposition
> of a polar bear with a toothache is very unwise
>
