March 15, 2004
Home Networking
Sometimes I serve as a consultant. In this case my Client originally had an ISDN line and a Fax line we installed in her downstairs office. The Fax line picked up DSL, the Client went with VPN over the DSL to replace the ISDN. More speed and cheaper. Client added a wireless router to supply the two computers upstairs in the family room.
But the upstairs computers were a bit too far away for a reliable signal, it is a very large house. Since not having a High-Speed Internet connection was unacceptable, the Client ran a Home Network using a rather long Cat-5 patch cable (pointed out in the pictures by the blue arrows.)
Not acceptable.
Talking with her Vendor, we decide upon a 2Wire DSL modem/router/hub upstairs in the family room, to feed the two computers there via wireless, with the connection to the downstairs computer via phone-line-networking. My part of the job was to get the DSL phone line upstairs. Which I did. Vendor will get the 2Wire portal and network the computers.
Why not me? It's Verizon DSL.
Posted by at March 15, 2004 09:35 PM