[Malvern] Connecting Equipment

[Jonathan Melhuish]

On Friday 21 May 2004 14:03, ian.pascoe at bt.com wrote:
> Lastly, if you have a scenario of 2 detached houses with a cable linking
> both, which is used for telephony, are there any cards available which
> allows the PCs to talk together by using the spare bandwidth of the
> cable - similar to the principles used in ADSL?

Yes, there a couple of ways.  The first that springs to mind is that many 56K 
modems have a feature that allows you to talk over a phone at the same time 
as using the data connection.  I'm not entirely sure how it works, but I 
would imagine it filters the voice to a much narrower bandwidth to allow for 
some data.

A much better solution would be HomePNA: http://www.homepna.com/

It runs over telephone lines and gives you up to 10Mbps; what I'm less sure 
about is its maximum range or even whether you can use the telephone lines at 
the same time - although I would assume so, otherwise you could just run 
Ethernet over the phone line instead!

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Jon