>From personal experience wiring my house with cat6--Cat6 was actually cheaper than cat5e for me. Also, you don't want to put more than 4 of them next to each other in a conduit or you will get crosstalk between the wires when they're all active. Also, don't cut any of them longer than about 20meters, 'cause the packet loss can get so bad that your ARP requests to your router won't always go through.
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 7:19 AM, keith smith <klsmith2...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > I think improvements like this do not necessarily raise the value of a > home. What I think it will do is make the house more buy-able and > therefore will spend less time on the market. > > I use wireless in my house so I do not have to deal with running cable. > The mail problem is do you drop your cable to each wall so it is easy to > connect or re-connect when you re-orange your furniture? > > While WIFI is slower it does the job in my house. I'm not sure we know we > are wireless unless we think about it. > > > > ------------------------ > > Keith Smith > > --- On Sun, 6/16/13, Nathan England <nat...@nmecs.com> wrote: > > From: Nathan England <nat...@nmecs.com> > Subject: Re: Home wiring. > To: "S. Dale Morrey" <sdalemor...@gmail.com> > Cc: "Provo Linux Users Group" <plug@plug.org> > Date: Sunday, June 16, 2013, 9:03 PM > > On Sunday, June 16, 2013 10:01:10 PM S. Dale Morrey wrote: > > 640k should be enough for everyone! > > > > > > yeah yeah yeah... Good point. > I still think cat5e is good enough for a long time, unless you really have > the > money to install fiber in your home. And I cannot say for sure, I'd love to > hear from someone who really knows, but I would bet that a properly wired > cat5e home would raise the resale value a bit, but not any more than fiber > would. Unless fiber becomes a buzzword people know... > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > -- Todd Millecam /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
