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- From: Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney <alchemist AT pobox.com>
- To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: Fwd: Fwd: silly cable question
- Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 12:31:55 -0400 (EDT)
At 12:13pm Today, "Gina Norman" typed :
> Ok -- so the minimum to set up a wireless network is:
>
> $299 base station
> 300? card for PC (or mac)
> ____
> 600 investment
You can get OEM Wireless cards for $100 or less, and I saw at least one
base station at $199.
if you have a firewall/router box like I do, you could buy a PCMCIA
Cardslot for the router, and use that instead, bringing the whole cost
down to under $300 ($60 for the PCI->PCMCIA card, $100 +/- for the Cards)
> Knowing that I have the option to go wireless at any time, and knowing
> that they're gonna be pulling cable anyway (for the speaker wire) does it
> not make sense to get them to pull CAT5 or 6 or something? (I'm assuming
> that the wire itself doesn't cost hundereds of dollars...)
Absolutely! But make sure they run it properly! The current law allows
them to run phone lines as a single cable, cut and re-joined at each
junction box. This is, of course, bad for ethernet. You may end up paying
extra for each run. But it would be worth it, IMHO.
I wish I had put the down on this house before they had run the wires for
just that purpose, but I can always run 'em myself later *grin*
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Re: Fwd: Fwd: silly cable question
, (continued)
- Re: Fwd: Fwd: silly cable question, Lisa Linn, 04/18/2001
- Re: silly cable question, David R. Matusiak, 04/18/2001
- Re: Fwd: Fwd: silly cable question, Thomas, 04/18/2001
- Re: silly cable question, Austin, Roger, 04/18/2001
- Re: Fwd: Fwd: silly cable question, David Minton, 04/18/2001
- Re: Fwd: Fwd: silly cable question, Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney, 04/18/2001
- Re: Fwd: Fwd: silly cable question, Steven Champeon, 04/18/2001
- Re: Fwd: Fwd: silly cable question, Gina Norman, 04/18/2001
- Re: silly cable question, Lisa Linn, 04/18/2001
- Re: Fwd: Fwd: silly cable question, Austin, Roger, 04/18/2001
- Re: Fwd: Fwd: silly cable question, Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney, 04/18/2001
- Re: Fwd: Fwd: silly cable question, Josep L. Guallar-Esteve, 04/18/2001
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Re: Fwd: Fwd: silly cable question,
Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney, 04/18/2001
- Wireless followup, Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney, 04/22/2001
- Re: Fwd: Fwd: silly cable question, Lisa Linn, 04/18/2001
- Re: Fwd: Fwd: silly cable question, Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney, 04/18/2001
- Re: silly cable question, Ron Thigpen, 04/18/2001
- Re: silly cable question, Robert Weeks, 04/18/2001
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