Rob Hudson wrote:
Bob Miller wrote:
Rob Hudson wrote:
What's that entail? What's the potential cost? And what kind of
issues have you had to deal with regarding wireless?
Five years ago, a 1000' reel was $75, and wallplate jacks were $5 to
$7 each. I don't know current prices.
Cat-5E is what you actually want, since GigE supports it.
Plus the cost of installing it (running the cable, dropping the lines
into the walls, etc?)
I look at that and it seems like a lot of work vs. the ease of wireless
which we've had little to know problems with. Our house is pretty small
and even a 50% signal on 802.11g means something like 24Mbit, which is
fine for checking email and surfing the web, and is ~25x faster than our
internet connection anyway. :)
Maybe I'll run into issues when I start thinking about automated backups
and things. Hadn't thought of running cat5, so I do appreciate the
suggestion.
-Rob
I've run wires in my current house (Cat5E) and my last
house (Cat5). As far as I'm concerned the only downside
is the work to install it. Crawling around in the attic
isn't much fun.
I don't trust wireless security. Having a wireless net
is like running your Cat5 out to the sidewalk and expecting
the system to remain private.
--
Allen Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.peak.org/~abrown/
"Don't dream it... Be it." Rocky Horror Picture Show
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