Networking Via Phone Line?

[Tyler Hall]

I went ahead and bought it, since it took 3 days to post my email to plug,
and so far so good.  It was extremely easy, it's all USB, you plug it into
the USB port, it finds it, and bang, your connected.

Things seem to be running fine, with a 56k modem even right now.  I would
suggest it, for the adverage person that doesnt know how to network with
cat5, or want to spend $700 for a person to do it for them.

-Tyler

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Brown" <kevin_brown@qwest.net>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2001 2:51 PM
Subject: Re: Networking Via Phone Line?


> If it's like the intel stuff then it is using the phone wires in your
house to
> connect systems together.  I think it's supposed to be able to do around
> 10Mbps.  The advantage of this is that most homes have phone lines running
to
> every room so you don't need to run network cable.  Disadvantage, it's
slower
> than than a standard wired network could be.
>
> > I saw a ad for a Networking device for your phone line, in CompUSA's
newspaper
> > ad.    It's made from LinkSys.   I'm a little worried about this, theres
no
> > hub involved, all data is transfered via your phone line.  It _CANT_ be
that
> > fast.   It just seems too good to be true.  The device is $60/per
computer.
> >
> > It can hold up to 25 computers (the box says)
> >
> > Has anyone experienced this kind of networking?  Is it any good?   I'm
> > thinking about trying it, and then getting cox for the internet.
> >
> > My only other question is, does it need to be a "live" telephone?  We
have 2
> > lines right now, but if we get cox, we'll get rid of the second line.
Does it
> > actually need the phone line, or does it need the phone wire?
>
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