All the wiring in the house is new wire. Before the fire, I had a wired 100 Mb hub in the office, and used wireless everywhere else.
Since the walls were open, I bought and ran cable in August. The drywall is up now, so what's there is it. The wire was made by Hitachi Cable Manchester, Cat6, riser, 1000 ft box. Cable is labled "Category 6 Plus 4PR/23". I'm 99% sure this is it: http://share.salesaspects.com/files/Hitachi%20Cat6%20Plus.pdf The idea of fiber is most intriguing and would be very nice. But having two kids in private school, and a few "upgrades" on this and that sprinkled through the house, etc. I can't afford fiber devices/ converters right now. It would have been a heck of a lot easier to run fiber though. :-) The electricians wanted $100 per run and I'd have to buy the wire. So I looked at how they ran electrical wire and decided I could easily run it myself. I put in 13 ports, all converging in the cupboard under the stairs. (I don't have anywhere near that number of devices, but I had the wire and it's not as easy to run inconspicuously after the walls are up.) The pantry would have been more central, but I was afraid of the fluorescent lights the electricians were talking about putting in there. I had them put a phone line and power up on the wall in the cupboard. I think I should be set for DSL hookup, mounting a router on the wall, and plugging the lines into the router. So when we're under there during a tornado warning we can plug in the laptop and see the weather, as long as the power doesn't go out. It may be a little bit before I get a gigabit router, but we'll have to see on that. I'm not planning on getting a 16 port switch any time soon either, as I doubt we would use too many ports for a while. (Better to have them run and go unused than need them and not have the wire run.) Jacks and plugs: I just hate buying things that would be replaced soon when just a couple of extra dollars would have gotten me what I end up with. But I also don't want to buy the super-deluxe- funtabulous-whatcha-mahoosit for $7 when I won't get any benefit over the $4 whatcha-mahoosit (times 13). I should have checked the definitions on Wikipedia... "1000-BaseT was designed to run over Cat5" but Cat5e is an excellent choice for 1000- BaseT. Cat 6 may be sufficient for 10-gigabit. So 5e it is. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
