[WinMac] upgrading from coax to fast ethernet peer-to-peer lan
tom lyczko(tom[at]mail.visualwave.com)
hello...i'm a new subscriber...
i work in a small business where the people don't know a lot about computers, networking, etc., but i've been given the job of upgrading their coax/thinnet peer-to-peer lan to something better...
i've recommended they go right to fast ethernet cat 5 cabling and a 10/100 hub so they won't have to upgrade again...
the situation is this:
there are macs and pcs on the lan, and the pcs use pc-maclan to talk to the macs...their coax cables run through the walls and come out through wall jack-plates on the walls...
my questions are:
1. what happens to my lan when i change the wiring? does it then become a windows peer-to-peer lan or can it stay a mac lan more or less? (they are a graphic design firm which needs its macs...)
2. what is the device that i need to put into the wall so that the jacks are rj-45 not coax?? there are little gray items inside the wall out of which the cables emerge from the wall to the back of the wall-plate...methinks i need wall plates with rj-45 connections on the front and back, correct????
thank you for your help...replies to the list or direct replies are fine.
tom lyczko
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