yea, i had cable when it first came out. it was a sweet 3 months. i had the whole 10MB connect to myself (i was the only person in baltimore who used it after 12PM, and i think there was only like 100-300 people who had it in the whole city. oh man i was in heaven. then i moved and had to go back to 33.6 that was hell. i got so pissed i stoped using the internet for a while. But i got DSL this past Jan, and its so nice
CAT5 or Catigory 5 is a cable specification which includes 4 pairs of wires. TIA-EIA 568A is the newest adopted standard for wiring CAT5 Shielded Twisted pair wire for standard 100 megabit service...most commonly with the ends being terminated with a RJ-45 jack...
The only advantage to IDSN that I can see is having remote access to a solid 56k(in the U.S. we use an extra B channel, thus borrowing a bit or 8 k) or 64K in pal land...
The only advantage to IDSN that I can see is having remote access to a solid 56k(in the U.S. we use an extra B channel, thus borrowing a bit or 8 k) or 64K in pal land...
I can use the B channel aswell here in the UK, only problem is my ISP, its on whats called the Hometime service which dosnt support 128k. If I switch to Anytime, I will be able to use 128k
So your school is using CAT5 cabling for their physical connection to thier servers/switches/routers/hubs, ect.... Sometime, take a look at the wire that's connecting to the NIC card in the back of one your computers at school, the cable should have CAT5 stamped on it.....
CAT5 is not a service, but rather a physical medium that the packets of zero's and one's are sent accross... This is much like FDDI or FiberOptics.. FDDI is not a service that's provided, it's just the medium that carries the service...
Despite using CAT5, they can be bloody slow, because of all the computers I suppose. I know they're CAT5 because I work on the schools web site (www.kevinsplayroom.co.uk) and above the lap top I work on theres severs which have CAT5 branded on the case.
Originally posted by F2002 Despite using CAT5, they can be bloody slow, because of all the computers I suppose. I know they're CAT5 because I work on the schools web site (www.kevinsplayroom.co.uk) and above the lap top I work on theres severs which have CAT5 branded on the case.
that was hell. i got so pissed i stoped using the internet for a while. But i got DSL this past Jan, and its so nice 
Right on... :thumbsup:
