Sparks needing help with a LAN!
 Friend of mine is trying to get back to electrics after
 major health problems.
 He's got a mogul customer who wants one of his houses and an
 apartment next door wired for an ethernet network with ISDN
 on computer and 'phone.
 Some stuff has been done during a previous renovation -
 'cat 5' screened twisted pair cables to all rooms from study
 and big coax from study to apartment next door.
 So, friend Adam is thinking of putting RJ 45 sockets in the
 rooms on the ends of these cat 5 cables
  But what happens in the study?
  There are 6 cat 5 cables and a half-inch coaxial cable
 poking up through the floor. What goes on the ends of these?
 Apparently the 'phone company wants to put a modem on the end
 of the new ISDN line when they put it in.
 Apparently (there may be a lot of 'apparently's in this message!)
 one can have a server computer in the study, or on the other end
 of the coax, in the apartment, running the whole thing, with a
 'Hub' on the other end of the coax.
 Or apparently a 'router'(?) can do the job.
 Which is better? What's a 'hub'?
 How do you hook them up?
   Any thoughts/suggestions appreciated,
   Cheers,
                    Jan
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