Joe12345678
join:2003-07-22
Des Plaines, IL | At that price you can get wifi or home power plug adapters..
At that price you can get wifi or home power plug adapters for less and you are not tied to where the cable is in the house.
Also is it hub based so if you have 3-4+ systems on it they all slow down? |
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elios
join:2005-11-15
Springfield, MO | OR you can send 1/2 that and 4-5 hours and wire your home for CAT5 your self
i did it and it was dirt cheap even counting the cost of the router |
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purr le meow
@videotron.net
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If the cable company offers networking solutions to their customers for a fee, then lending them the adapter instead of rewiring their homes would be cheaper, as you must remember that cabling that is installed into a home is generally not recuperated by the cableco should a customer leave, so you're basicly giving away cabling, but an adapter you lend to the customer IS taken back, and can be reused for the next customer. Viewed from that perspective, it does become economically viable.
A high percentage of customers wouldn't know how to connect an ethernet cable to their modem, much less setup their own routers with wireless capability. |
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Joe12345678
join:2003-07-22
Des Plaines, IL
| said by purr le meow :
If the cable company offers networking solutions to their customers for a fee, then lending them the adapter instead of rewiring their homes would be cheaper, as you must remember that cabling that is installed into a home is generally not recuperated by the cableco should a customer leave, so you're basicly giving away cabling, but an adapter you lend to the customer IS taken back, and can be reused for the next customer. Viewed from that perspective, it does become economically viable.
A high percentage of customers wouldn't know how to connect an ethernet cable to their modem, much less setup their own routers with wireless capability.
How many customers are willing to pay $5+ per tv and per pc month? |
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shoe1
join:2007-09-28
Colfax, CA | reply to elios
why not CAT6? It's pretty much the same price, at least at monoprice.com, and 10x faster(more future proof). |
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elios
join:2005-11-15
Springfield, MO | CAT5e is just as good and i couldnt get CAT6 locally |
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shoe1
join:2007-09-28
Colfax, CA | oh, gotcha. You didn't say CAT5e you said CAT5 in the original post. |
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