On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 15:02:32 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Its dirt cheap because everybody has gone wireless and cant sell
their 100BaseT kit for love or money on ebay.

strokes chin

I wonder why everyone's selling.

Simply fashion.

And the fact that if you visit any of the shed type stores you'll find
shelves of wireless networky stuff, complete with rather iffy marketing
claims. And tucked away at the bottom a little bit of cabled kit, that
marketing can't puff up.

And the fact that a majority of the great unwashed couldn't clip a cable
to the skirting for love nor money let alone terminate the cable
correctly in the sockets.

And the fact that even if they could clip a cable "the management"
wouldn't let them and hiding a cable in a modern box is next to
impossible, But at least modern boxes with an internal soil stacks have a
nice duct running from the roof space through all floors. B-)

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