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To: Mike Wong who wrote (48827)	2/25/1998 8:01:00 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Mike, Thanks for a terrific post - very informative too. >>>I also suggests what Intel must IMPROVE on to sell to a mass market.<<< If Intel is to succeed in this market, they should seek a lot advice from people like you. >>> To sell multiple networked PC's in many households, Intel will have to do the following: 1. Wireless communications ( to get rid of the ugly stuff, and the expensive electrician)<<< I'll go for that. Under the carpet and around closet doors and stuff is really not my cup of tea. >>> 2. Built-in LAN in each PC (that means no need to install extra cards or drivers)<<< More functions on a single chip (if that is what you mean) is great by me and probably with Brain Halla - but it may go against the grain with Intel. >>> 3. Incremental cost per PC must be $50 or less.<<< One more function in 100M MPU's can't cost more than a few bucks - won't you think? >>> 4. Performance of the LAN is not too important. After all, how often will I need to share video between PC's??<<< I'll leave that to you engineering types. 5. Must be able to share new ADSL Lite connection to the Internet throughout the network, but without requiring complicated setup by users. Preferably (and most probably), it will be a standard driver in Windows. Doing something simply is not something that's in the Intel culture - I don't think. Who know's maybe Craig Barrett is a different type of manager. >>> YOU KNOW WHAT ...... I THINK INTEL will MAKE ALL THE ABOVE HAPPEN. Just a guess.<<< I hope you are right - Intel has not had much success outside of MPU's. You would think that there would be a lot of synergy here and this would be right up their alley - but somehow I don't think so. But, if they could make this transition and be able to sell to the end user - Intel should then have PE multiple of about 50. Regards, Mary

To: Mike Wong who wrote (48827)	2/25/1998 9:05:00 PM
From: Barry A. Watzman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

If you had a cable modem, and put it on your "home network", then every one of the other PC's on your home network would have direct access to the internet through the single cable modem (the cable modem normally connects the cable system to a UTP (10Base-T) ethernet network). Using UTP (unshielded twisted pair wire, similar to modular telephone wire but NOT the same, and not interchangeable) instead of coax requires that every computer be wired to a central "hub" instead of simply daisy chained as you do with coax ("thin" ethernet, 10Base-2). The hubs are cheap, however, a four to eight port hub is well under $100. By the way, many people building new homes are wiring for a computer network in the house. One of the easier ways to do this is to use 4-pair (8 conductor) UTP network wire for the phone wiring. The phone takes two conductors, leaving three pairs, two pairs (4 conductors) for the network, and two spares for a 2nd phone line. The only thing you have to do is to have every jack run to a central point, instead of daisy-chaining the phone jacks as is often done. UTP network wiring is similar to phone wire anyway, as mentioned. You can't use phone wiring for a network, but you can use network wiring for phone service.