Setting up a network and sharing internet

[Henry Spencer]

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> That was 100BaseT4 rather than the now more common 100BaseTX.  The idea
> with T4 was to use cat3 wiring that "everyone" had in their walls.  Of
> course the cards never took off since many people thought replacing
> wiring and using only 2 pairs was much simpler.

And most people who'd been putting new network wiring into their walls had
been using Cat5 anyway.

> That and T4 is half
> duplex only which was really a deal breaker for many people.

Or they thought so, anyway.  (People tend to have really exaggerated ideas
about how much network bandwidth they need; mass-market LAN-hardware
evolution is driven much more by marketing and by what's easy in silicon
than by real need.  Most of today's LAN users still don't really need
100Mbit, let alone 1000.)

> TX grew
> much faster than the T4 advocates had imagined and the prices dropped so
> fast that T4 quickly died.

Exactly.

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org

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