On 4/18/05, David Mann wrote: > I spent most of my weekend in the roof space running cat5. I'm still > sore enough to recommend going wireless :)
Wired will always be an order of magnitude faster than wireless. With a star topology going to an average switch, you get full-duplex, which means 100Mbps in each direction simultaneously, per computer. With wireless you get at best 54Mbps[1], but this bandwidth is shared between *all* devices accessing the same wireless access point. By the time wireless bypases 100baseT, wired will be on 1000baseT for the same price (I hope you laid cat 5E and not just cat 5). As long as you laid cat 5E or cat 6, your existing wired LAN will carry gigE simply by replacing the switch and NICs. If I ever build another house I'll be putting in conduit for pulling through terabit fibre when it comes out :-) Yuri [1] I think. I can't recall the exact figure -- ** WARNING to mailing list repliers ** Gmail over-rides "Reply-To:" field. Check your "To:" address before sending reply to this post.
