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johnwill · 11-19-2002, 04:49 PM

I'm not sure how USB and CAT-5 cables got mixed up in your post, but they don't go together! :)

I'd be willing to bet that you'd get at least $25 worth of ulcers trying to get the USB lash-up to work properly. OTOH, you can buy 10/100 NICs for $10-12/ea, and a simple cross-over cable gets you out of the gate. You will have a much easier time getting Ethernet running, since that's were 99.9% of the networking effort is concentrated.

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johnwill Manager, Networking Forums Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: S.E. Pennsylvania, US Posts: 29,829 OS: XP-Pro, Vista, Linux Blog Entries: 1	I'm not sure how USB and CAT-5 cables got mixed up in your post, but they don't go together! :) I'd be willing to bet that you'd get at least $25 worth of ulcers trying to get the USB lash-up to work properly. OTOH, you can buy 10/100 NICs for $10-12/ea, and a simple cross-over cable gets you out of the gate. You will have a much easier time getting Ethernet running, since that's were 99.9% of the networking effort is concentrated.