ethernet cable ?

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Are you supposed to also get an ethernet cable in the Sentech mywireless modem package ?

I just got a USB connector.

Is it the same connection as a PCMCIA ethernet cable ?
 
The ethernet cable is NO better than the USB cable. Even a USB 1.1 host controller can handle 12Mb/s, which is way more than what Sentech will ever give you.

The only reason for wanting an Ethernet cable used to be running Linux, and there is a Linux driver available now. Only other reasons I can think for wanting an Ethernet cable is if you want to setup a router or something that understands PPPoE, or you're running some other *nix.





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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by TheRoDent</i>
<br />The ethernet cable is NO better than the USB cable. Even a USB 1.1 host controller can handle 12Mb/s, which is way more than what Sentech will ever give you.

The only reason for wanting an Ethernet cable used to be running Linux, and there is a Linux driver available now. Only other reasons I can think for wanting an Ethernet cable is if you want to setup a router or something that understands PPPoE, or you're running some other *nix.
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That's exactly what I want to do. I run smoothwall as a firewall (www.smoothwall.org) so I want to see if I can get it running PPPoE.

I'll try Cablelink in Strijdom park - they may a cable that'll do the job for cheap.

If that doesn't hack it, then I'll try the Linux drivers on my slackware box and set it up as a firewall instead.
 
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by TheRoDent</i>
<br />The ethernet cable is NO better than the USB cable. Even a USB 1.1 host controller can handle 12Mb/s, which is way more than what Sentech will ever give you.

The only reason for wanting an Ethernet cable used to be running Linux, and there is a Linux driver available now. Only other reasons I can think for wanting an Ethernet cable is if you want to setup a router or something that understands PPPoE, or you're running some other *nix.
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Another reason would be if you get signal further than 10m from the PC, then you can run ethernet all the way without the limitation of USB cable length.

I can't believe the cable is not suddenly R250, I bought it for R150 when MyWireless just started...

bb_matt, Cablelink don't have this cable, it's a custom cable with a little box in the middle which might contain circuitry. I'd like to see noone disect the cable and tell us what's inside [;)]
I'm not gonna risk breaking the cable by opening it, since I rely on it.

c'mon noone, I know you wanna [:D]

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R230 from nowire (linked from fastcomm)

http://www.nowire.co.za

You know, considering how much your paying for the modem over a 24 month contract, you'd think they'd include an ethernet cable as well !

(or at least ask which cable you prefer)
 
That's just the funny thing. According to ipwireless there's two packages, one with USB cable and one with Ethernet cable. I bet sentech/fastcomm only ordered the USB packages, and bought the Ethernet cables afterwards.

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