a question on networking

TomTom · 02-01-2003 12:26pm #1

I've a question, you might think it's a stupid one but here it goes. Is it possible to use the phone line in a house for netwroking. I've two computers in the house, both using the same phone line to connect to the net. Using the modems is there a way to do it.

ando · 02-01-2003 12:35pm

no, well at least I've never heard of it being done. You could possibly setup a Wan if you had 2 phonelines (one for each PC) but it would be a waist of time and resources ... and your money !

If you want to network them, the easiest and cheapest way is to get 2 network cards and a bit of crossover cat5 cable.

Offy · 02-01-2003 12:47pm

Your phome line uses two of the wires on the cable, which has four wires. A network cable (CAT5) used four wires. It would be possible if you wired your house with CAT5 cable (contains eight wires) but not with standard telephone cable.

longword · 02-01-2003 1:23pm

Google for HPNA phone networking. It's a standard that shares your in-house telephone wiring to provide fast ethernet-like networking between machines with HPNA cards. You can get 1-10Mbit/sec out of it. You might also like to consider wireless networking with 802.11b.

TomTom · 02-01-2003 1:46pm

a screw it i'll just but anpther nic and use the cat5. Just thought I'd ask

sceptre · 02-01-2003 5:10pm

Like longwood sais, it can be done (but IMHO it's not worth the effort given the speed you get from it)

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