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To: Yogi - Paul who wrote (890)	9/17/1998 7:29:00 AM
From: Pierre-X	Respond to of 2025

Regarding home networking: I agree with your pigeon-holing of home networking in the category of products with significant future potential. However, at this point I think the market is as yet immature. In order to have a home network, that home needs to contain two or more devices worthy of being connected together. There are not yet many such households. I would ventured to guess -- without having seen any research numbers -- that most homes thusly equipped are inhabited by technical savants who would not hesitate to lay coaxial or twisted pair cable, especially considering how amazingly cheap it is to do so now. (Roughly $15-$25 per node.) I must confess here, however, that are myself have coaxial cable strewn about the house. I also have friends who have done the same, chiefly for the purpose of setting up local area networks for multi-player gaming. Perhaps the other thread members can share their observations in this regard. God bless, PX [Disclaimer: Dictated using Dragon Systems NS 1.0. All errors in content, grammar, or logic may be attributed to the software. <g>]