[geeks] Home Network (Was: Wireless Ethernet)

[geeks at sunhelp.org]

"Fogg, James" wrote:

> Hey! Leave the 25 pair in place. It's great stuff. I have successfully run
> 100mb on it for distances of 100 feet without problems (not even repeated
> packets).

Hmmm, I couldn't get a clean signal on it. Before I yanked the one line
to the master bedroom, I used two of the unused pairs for ethernet, and
had something like 40% packet loss. I *wanted* to leave it in place. I
suspect it's quite a bit more than 100 ft from the switch to the jack,
as it was running all the way across the basement and up two floors.


> If you need 110 or 66 blocks for the termination I can get some.

I have one small one (66? not home now to check) that I was going to
mount next to the patch panel on the network "rack", and the two big
boxes in the basement. I think I'm alright there.


> btw, if they ran 25pr to each phone then it was an oooold 1A system. That
> was vintage 1970 and prior. 

Quite a bit prior, I would guess from the condition of the equipment.
How old could it theoretically be? The house was built in the late '40's


> Those were the phones with a row of clear
> plastic light-up pushbuttons on an otherwise normal looking desk set.

Cool. Maybe I'll try to find something to return it to it's former
glory. At least in the basement where the mrs. won't complain.


> If you pull the 25pr, send it to me, I use that stuff for everything.
 
I've got the one piece I yanked. Got anything interesting to trade?
Address?


---sambo