[Tfug] Switches -- and hubs!

[Eric Gearhart]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Louis Taber <ltaber at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have had one good reason to use 10Mbit hub.  I needed to go 1200 feet.  I
> the link setup signals for 100Mbit would go 600 feet, but the data couldn't
> make it.  With a simple hardware modification I did my version of POE to a
> 10Mbit hub in the center of the run.  The hub forced the link setup down to
> 10Mbit half duplex.  (The link allowed my friends to drop one of their
> satellite Internet services too.)  - Louis


Interesting hack, but why did you go the copper route? Two pringles
cans and two Linksys routers could have done that job (unless there's
a concrete bunker between the sites of course) :)

--
Eric