[TriLUG] Geek riffing - Cable networking?

Jon Carnes jonc at nc.rr.com
Wed Oct 9 13:22:10 EDT 2002


Arcnet runs fine on the same cable as your TV. Don't know if it will
interfere with the TV signal but sure won't bother Arcnet...

On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 12:39, Mark Turner wrote:
> All this talk of cable modems has me thinking...
> 
> Does anyone know of consumer networking equipment that can be used over 
> coax?
> 
> I'm not interested in 10Base2 stuff, but rather stuff that can co-exist 
> with TV signals (i.e., an MPEG stream stuffed into an unused 6 MHz TV 
> channel). What I'd like to do is to network a set-top box using only coax.
> 
> Is there any consumer-level DOCSIS gear? Anyone know of any other stuff 
> that does this?
> 
> -- 
>    Mark Turner, N4JMT   Siteseers Inc.
>    www.markturner.net   Open Source Solutions
>                         www.siteseers.net
> 
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