[Tfug] Switches -- and hubs!

[Louis Taber]

Geographic constraints.  Mostly a hill.  - Louis

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Eric Gearhart <eric at nixwizard.net> wrote:
> 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
>
> _______________________________________________
> Tucson Free Unix Group - tfug at tfug.org
> Subscription Options:
> http://www.tfug.org/mailman/listinfo/tfug_tfug.org
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://tfug.org/pipermail/tfug_tfug.org/attachments/20091224/8aa448c7/attachment-0002.html>