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To: Jeff Fox who wrote (62876)	8/20/1998 7:12:00 PM
From: d[-_-]b	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Jeff, RE: Low NIC prices I'm looking at a DataComm Warehouse catalog and 10M NICs are as low as $13.95 and 10/100M NICS are $69.95 and 4 port 100M hub is also $69.95. An 8 port 10M hub is $59.95 - so to run 10M around the house is $135 for 1000 feet of CAT5, $5.00 per outlet and another $2.00 for wallplates with $13.95 per computer to do 10M and another $60 for a HUB. So assuming eight rooms it's about $135 + 60 + 8 * ( 2 + 5 + 14) = $363 to do a house. 100M is very cheap at the computer end, $60 bucks. It's the hubs that can cost a bit of money $200-600, so I'm going to use 10M hubs for now and go to 100 if and when I need them and the price becomes reasonable. As for 1394, don't need it as you can mount remote disks/shares from a server over the ethernet at 10M full duplex and the response time is just fine. So I can install either a file server or a CDROM server and everyone in the house can access the central storage server over the network. Did I mention most games are also much more fun IMHO played against others. Over the Internet those games are too jerky, but in a real 10/100M network they really fly. With the core chips to do 10/100M right on every motherboard obviously under $60 - I think it's about time it just became standard equipment. I've never seen a workstation (UNIX) without a built in NIC. I can also use either a modem/cable modem or ISDN on a single server and everyone connected to the internal house network can transmit data over this single outside network connection. This is where you can really save some money and extra monthly phone line charges. PS: For fun I'm going to wire my neighbor into my network so we can play games on the HouseNet as I like to call it. The printers are also on the network so anyone can print to the printers as well without using serial and parallel cables anywhere.