On Saturday 07 November 2015 18:48:34 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 07 November 2015 09:44:34 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Saturday 07 November 2015 13:59:47 Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > > > On Sat, 7 Nov 2015 11:21:18 +0000 > > > > > > Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > !!! In which country do ordinary hardware stores stock _slightly_ > > > > arcane IT products?? Or, come to that, any IT products to speak > > > > of? > > > > > > Living in Darkest Paraguay, I have had no problem getting Trendnet > > > USBToRJ45 adapters sent from Amazon. > > > > I don't regard Amazon as an ordinary hardware store. You have > > over-snipped the quotation. I could easily buy one reasonably locally > > - but not in a hardware store, ordinary or otherwise. The OP said: " > > You could find it on an ordinary hardware store. It's really cheap." > > Cheap is relative too. > > > > Lisi > > Lisi, you are in jolly Olde England, where the populous expects to have > to go to a specialty supplier for such.
Yes - and is less rich than you lot! Cheap is relative. Though I have found some after all this on Amazon at around £10 (ten UKP). The most local I could find, which is certainly not our local hardware store, but is not a specialist shop either, nor even in my village, (larger than your town, Gene) had two: one at £79.00 and one at £29.00. And it is a train ride away. The nearest computer store, which would certainly have one, needs a taxi. There are plenty in London, of course. Note, pounds not dollars. Mind you, the computer shop has a good range: http://www.novatech.co.uk/search.html?s=usb%20to%20ethernet And fairly cheaply. Provided that you have a reasonable income, which not everyone has. Lisi > But lets put this in the Paraguay context from long distance crystal ball > gazing. > > As an old Iowa farm kid, if the Monkey-Ward or Snears & Row-it-back > catalog didn't have it, and you had already checked the local hardware > store, you did without, but I'd suspect his local hardware store in > Paraguay would be at least as well stocked as our small town (pop 270) > hardware store was in the 1950's era. I don't recall ever going in it > and coming out without a workable solution for whatever this guy, who > was a "geek" before the word was invented, was making at the moment. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett
