On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 06:19:43PM -0800, Abner Gershon wrote: > I am planning a home ethernet with one Windows and one > Linux Potatoe computer with a hub. My installed > ethernet cards are 10/100 and I would like to use the > higher 100 speed system. My cable options are 100 kHz > or Cat 5e in either: "PVC solid cable" or "Plenum > solid cable" or "Stranded cable" or Cat 6e in PVC > solid cable. The maximal cable distance would be 100 > feet. Any recommedations? Thanks.
Sounds a lot like my set up at home. I am using cat5 cable, with a slight catch. I didn't want to spend the cash on a hub. And part of it is I don't like hubs, they split your connection. So I made my own cat5 cross-over cable. This allowed me to run a cat5 between the linux and windows machine. The linux box has two 10/100 cards in it. One connects to the outside world, the other the windows machine. Nothing is 100% secure, but I feel better using linux to run a firewall. And rather than two computers attempting to connect to a Linksys "firewall/switch", I saved money only having to purchase another 10/100 card. Sorry as for the distance, I can't help. Mark
