[plug] home cat5 issues

Craig Foster Craig at fostware.net
Wed Mar 19 22:51:40 WST 2008



> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On
> Behalf Of Gavin Chester
> Sent: Wednesday, 19 March 2008 5:13 PM
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] home cat5 issues
> 
> On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 11:56 +0400, Brad Campbell wrote:
> > Mark J Gaynor wrote:
> 
> > Not so much stray capacitance, but reflections from un-terminated
> cable spurs.
> > Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but what you want to do
> _will_not_work_reliably_ever_.
> 
> Ohhhh! Bu@@er. That throws that plan to the weeds :-( Ignore previous
> post, in that event.
> 
> Gavin.
> 

*cough*Ethernet Over Power*cough*
Eg http://www.netcomm.com.au/EOP/NP285.php 

Leave one on your router and move the other one to the closest power
point to the machine you want to use...

It's not getting your hands dirty, but you're not far off cutting edge
:P

CraigF.



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