Is home networking hardware more or less the same across continents

[kamper]

Ok, so I live in Canada and I'm going on a group trip ton England in the fall.

A bunch of people are bringing laptops and are concerned that they will not be able to connect to whatever network we'll have (in a hostel sort of place) without adapters (like how you need adapters for power outlets with devices from another continent). This never occured to me as I assumed that all the standards would pretty much be the same around the world but I thought I'd ask people who would actually know for sure...

Particularly we'd be looking at ethernet (cat5/6 and rj45) and possibly wireless (802.11 a, b or g). Is that stuff exactly the same in England as it is in NA?

 

[spidey07]

ethernet is ethernet.

802.11b is 802.11 b.

That's the great thing about networks - all standardized to work together.

 

[kamper]

That's what I thought, thanks spidey

But just to confirm: rj45 is also the connection standard world-wide? Ethernet can be all the same everywhere but if the last 1cm doesn't work then it's all pointless

 

[spidey07]

well, 100 Base-T is 100 Base-T.

The T stands for twised pair and RJ45 is the connector.

The only thing really different in england is power and telecom (they use E1s instead o T1s but its still based on a 64k channel)

 

[kamper]

Thank you for your explanation, you have been most helpful