[RndTbl] Really old MTS Internet drop?

[Colin Stanners]

Likely: PC TV-capture card, or they're really confusing an ethernet cable.
Very unlikely: ancient 10base-2 NIC to a hub somewhere with their DSL modem.


On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Kevin McGregor
<kevin.a.mcgregor at gmail.com>wrote:

> Friends of my parents have had MTS Internet service for a decade or more
> (probably more).
>
> They told me that they have a coax cable in the room with their computer
> (an IBM Pentium 4 3.0 GHz, to give you an idea of the age of this setup;
> they had MTS Internet service before that in an older computer) AND that
> this coax cable plugs directly into their PC.Has anyone seen this sort of
> setup? I didn't look at it myself; this is just what I got from them over
> the phone just now.
>
> Are they mistaken, or did MTS in the past provide a PC card with a coax
> connector for Internet access? It's possible that they didn't recognize an
> Ethernet cable, but I did explicitly ask if it was connected to the
> computer with a screw-on type connector which they confirmed it was.
>
> Kevin
>
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