Word: ethernets
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...immediate destination of this Ethernet wiring is your friendly neighborhood "hub", a device usually located in the basement of your house or dorm. The hub concentrates the data from 100 or so users in your physical area, and plays "traffic cop" for the packets coming into and out of your area...
...each of these packets leaves your computer through the Ethernet card, it travels via the datajack through wiring behind your walls. The wiring here is mostly copper, fairly similar to the cabling used for telephone service...
...network packets also have a form of addressing--after all, the network needs to know where and how to send these packets along their way! Each packet is marked with the IP (Internet Protocol) address of its destination computer, telling the network where the packet needs to go. Your Ethernet address comes in here as well, serving as an identification tag on every packet of data...
...networked computer by next June. Other spending proposed includes $1.1 million for computer support staff (without whom many would find it difficult to network); $150,000 for high-end work stations; $50,000 for high-quality projection equipment; $100,000-$350,000 for '100 percenting' river houses for the ethernet; $100,000 for renovation of a house computer room; and $160,000 for the renovation of the Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services offices...
...already own a computer and simply need an Ethernet card to connect to Harvard's network, there's no better place to go than TPC. The store sells all of the supported devices for the network, and their prices for premium devices like 3Com cards are as low as mail-order vendors. They also have a liberal return policy on defective cards and erroneous purchases, usually accepting returned cards without receipts...