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Date:	Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:56:16 -0700
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: You say PHY, I Say 'Phooey.'

In <365805.88252.qm@web81415.mail.mud.yahoo.com>, on 10/18/07
at 11:15 PM, J R FOX said:

Hi,

>Thanks for the clarification. I was wondering, since
>I did not notice the mfr.s trying to explain this in
>the product overviews . . . and you'd have to imagine
>that a lot of typical Windows users are at least as
>clueless as the least of us.

That's not it. From a hardware mfg's POV this its just another talking
point. Google for

"benefits of integrate PHY"

>Gee, I'm disappointed. I was thinking you might say
>something like "This greatly helps you distribute your
>wireless Slingbox signals to monitors in multiple
>rooms," or something to that effect.

Why would I say something like this?

>It sounds like it doesn't do much of
>anything you wouldn't already get from earlier
>generations of built-in NICs.

That's not true.

>I did note that they frequently describe these as
>"*External* PHY." Like what ? -- there's something
>left hanging _outside_ of the box ?

What the mean is that the MAC and the PHY are separate chips. The world
is relative.

Steven

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