I'm going multi-media. There is a bunch of cat5 strung aroung the house
to get to the easy spots (basment where servers live to 2nd floor office,
kitchen, LR), going to put cat5 in the conduit to the garage (because it's
there) and 802.11 wireless everywhere else.
The wireless does have a high 'cool' factor, but it is slow. I'm
upgrading everything else to 100bT, but the wireless stuff is seriously
lagging behind.
The nice thing about wireless is that there are no cables to run. I plugged
an old 100Mhz 486 laptop into the ethernet hub in the basement, dropped a
wireless PCMCIA car in it, loaded Linux, and poof, wireless network.
In practice, I don't actually use it much since the important spots in
the house where I want to connect are wired. But which is cause and which
is effect is open to debate.
iii
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> At 06:53 PM 2/14/00 -0600, David Scheidt wrote:
> >>If you are installing new wire, do yourself a favor and pull CAT-5. The
> >cost difference is quite low,
>
> CAT-5 is selling for ca. $60 per 1000 foot spool at Home Depot these days.
> one spool can get 2 independent runs of CAT 5 to most rooms in a reasonably
> sized house; i just finished most of my house, and have a bit left over.
>
> the main cost is the jacks. pulling the cable and leaving it unterminated
> "for later" may be a reasonable way of controlling costs while getting the
> wires place while the pulling is good. like David, i am providing for
> 100BaseT; it's the kind of weirdness that makes us networking wonks so
> endearing (or something -- i know that bownes is talking about wireless,
> which may have a little "my home network is cooler than yours" component to
> it.)
>
> cheers,
> richard
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