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Re: Enough CAT5?


  • To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
  • Subject: Re: Enough CAT5?
  • From: "Keith Doxey" <ukha@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 14:20:13 -0000
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  • Reply-to: ukha_d@xxxxxxx

I respectfully refer you to the recent case of

Phil "Bargain" Harris vs. Neighbours Video Sender.

As wireless kit becomes cheaper its popularity will grow.
More users for the same spectrum means more problems.

How long would your helicopter stay airborne if 500 people turned up
to fly theirs ?

I rest my case.

Keith aka Katman :-)

--- In ukha_d@y..., "Timothy Morris" <timothy.morris@i...>
wrote:
>
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: Mark McCall [mailto:mark@xxxxxxx...]
>   Sent: 28 September 2001 14:22
>   To: ukha_d@y...
>   Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Enough CAT5?
>
>
>   Wired LAN point will always be cheaper/faster/more-secure/more-
reliable
> than wireless Tim.
>
>   Also - you need CAT5 for so many other things too - curtain
control, IR
> distribution etc.
>
>   M.
>
> The new WLAN technologies will be 100Mb+, and due next year.
Windows XP
> supports RADIUS for both wired and wireless network security which
encrypts
> every packet at the OS level so there's no need for the cards
themselves to
> offer it (It is like running a VPN on your local network).
>
> If the Marantz RC-5200 (?) has sufficient range, then IR
distribution is
> taken care of.
>
> I already have curtain control through X10.
>
> I realise that in order to do it today you need CAT5, but I don't
think it
> will be necessary in a couple of years.
>
> Just an opinion....
>
> Tim.



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