Hi..I have been thinking for some time(and reading) about HomePNA.
The situation I am facing is as follows.I am a student (in greece) and live
VERY close(across the street) to my university(which is situated in one large building).
What I want to do is to connect my home PC to a workstation or server in one of the labs
in the university to get free inet access (phone bills are kinda steep here and we don't have any DSL yet..56k..that's it).I also have almost-admin access in the labs so I can try just about anything I want.The problem is that the distance is probably more than
100m(cat5 cable max length)..about 200-250m and cat5 cable is a bit expensive.
So I was wondering if I could get two homePNA NICs,put one in the lab,the other at home
and run a phone cable to connect them (according to homePNA 2.0 max phone line length is around 1000ft-340m).But the problem is whether the NICs will work without the voltage that is normally supplied to the phone line by the phone company(here 12 V i think).
Does anyone know?
It's like substituting the cat5 cable and ethernet with phone cable and homePNA..
will the NICs have enough power to drive the signal all the way to the other end??
thanks..
The situation I am facing is as follows.I am a student (in greece) and live
VERY close(across the street) to my university(which is situated in one large building).
What I want to do is to connect my home PC to a workstation or server in one of the labs
in the university to get free inet access (phone bills are kinda steep here and we don't have any DSL yet..56k..that's it).I also have almost-admin access in the labs so I can try just about anything I want.The problem is that the distance is probably more than
100m(cat5 cable max length)..about 200-250m and cat5 cable is a bit expensive.
So I was wondering if I could get two homePNA NICs,put one in the lab,the other at home
and run a phone cable to connect them (according to homePNA 2.0 max phone line length is around 1000ft-340m).But the problem is whether the NICs will work without the voltage that is normally supplied to the phone line by the phone company(here 12 V i think).
Does anyone know?
It's like substituting the cat5 cable and ethernet with phone cable and homePNA..
will the NICs have enough power to drive the signal all the way to the other end??
thanks..
