The phone lines repurposed as ethernet in my parents’ house also only do 100 Mb/s. I concur, so painful. I want to put a storage server there but no matter where it’s limited by awful speeds. It also means getting faster internet would be useless because it would be limited by these wires.

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 days ago

I've worked at places where we repurposed old CAT3 cables for network connecting printers, desk phones, environmental sensors, etc. Rare occasions where 10Mbps works just fine. Using that to connect a PC would suck.

[–] randombullet@programming.dev 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I wonder if it would have been the same cost to do an outdoor fiber run.

[–] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Probably not, the costs were essentially just sticking ethernet ports on the walls next to the phone ports and rewiring the existing wires to those ports. And back when this was done (whenever we got DSL, around 2005 maybe?) fiber tech was probably prohibitively expensive. I haven’t looked up how much fiber modems cost but it would probably be more expensive even today.