Re: [Discuss] Future-proofing a house for networking -- what to run?

2017-09-13 Thread Richard Pieri
On 9/13/2017 10:13 PM, Robert Krawitz wrote: > This is 1000Base-T, with standard cat 5e cable. scp isn't much slower. You're using full-duplex with Cat 5e? You're off spec. And now I'm wondering if the data corruption problems you were having a few weeks ago were a consequence of it. -- Rich P.

Re: [Discuss] Future-proofing a house for networking -- what to run?

2017-09-13 Thread Robert Krawitz
On Wed, 13 Sep 2017 21:39:02 -0400, Richard Pieri wrote: > On 9/13/2017 3:23 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: >> I have a family of four, plus occasional guests. If I had every >> device that could be connected to ethernet connected to wifi, >> I would spend all my time debugging wifi problems. > > Either yo

Re: [Discuss] Future-proofing a house for networking -- what to run?

2017-09-13 Thread Richard Pieri
On 9/13/2017 3:49 PM, Shirley Márquez Dúlcey wrote: > Something that hasn't been noted is that, even in a wireless future, > you need to feed data to the wireless devices and wires are the best > way to do it. I need a WiFi access point on each floor to get good I kinda did but in two pieces and I

Re: [Discuss] Future-proofing a house for networking -- what to run?

2017-09-13 Thread Richard Pieri
On 9/13/2017 3:23 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > I have a family of four, plus occasional guests. If I had every > device that could be connected to ethernet connected to wifi, > I would spend all my time debugging wifi problems. Either you exaggerate or you've been doing very very wrong things because

Re: [Discuss] Future-proofing a house for networking -- what to run?

2017-09-13 Thread Shirley Márquez Dúlcey
For me, it depends on the expected lifetime of the edge device. Right now, for example, I don't expect any video streaming box to have a lifetime of more than five years; by then it will be sufficiently obsolete that it will need to be replaced. Future-proofing it isn't important. The same applies

Re: [Discuss] Future-proofing a house for networking -- what to run?

2017-09-13 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 02:36:51PM -0400, Richard Pieri wrote: > On 9/13/2017 11:44 AM, Robert Krawitz wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Sep 2017 11:38:36 -0400, Richard Pieri wrote: > >> 1080p video streams (MPEG-4) need about 5-8 Mbps burst bandwidth. > >> Gigabit Ethernet has practical throughput about 300M

Re: [Discuss] Future-proofing a house for networking -- what to run?

2017-09-13 Thread Richard Pieri
On 9/13/2017 1:48 PM, Bill Horne wrote: > WiFi-only devices will require that the owner keep updating his > equipment every time his ISP adopts a new WiFi standard. I feel that the This has never been a requirement of 802.11 devices. My 802.11b and 802.11g devices still work with my 802.11n acce

Re: [Discuss] Future-proofing a house for networking -- what to run?

2017-09-13 Thread Robert Krawitz
On Wed, 13 Sep 2017 14:36:51 -0400, Richard Pieri wrote: > On 9/13/2017 11:44 AM, Robert Krawitz wrote: >> On Wed, 13 Sep 2017 11:38:36 -0400, Richard Pieri wrote: >>> 1080p video streams (MPEG-4) need about 5-8 Mbps burst bandwidth. >>> Gigabit Ethernet has practical throughput about 300Mbps. >>

Re: [Discuss] Future-proofing a house for networking -- what to run?

2017-09-13 Thread Richard Pieri
On 9/13/2017 11:44 AM, Robert Krawitz wrote: > On Wed, 13 Sep 2017 11:38:36 -0400, Richard Pieri wrote: >> 1080p video streams (MPEG-4) need about 5-8 Mbps burst bandwidth. >> Gigabit Ethernet has practical throughput about 300Mbps. > > ??? I routinely get over 100 MB/sec (>800 Mbps) transferring

Re: [Discuss] Future-proofing a house for networking -- what to run?

2017-09-13 Thread Bill Horne
On 9/12/2017 11:42 AM, Richard Pieri wrote: On 9/12/2017 10:52 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: I am sorry, but I completely disagree. Even with modern Wifi, I can get much better throughput using physical wires if for no other reason than each link can be switched and therefore isn't "shared". With Wi

Re: [Discuss] Future-proofing a house for networking -- what to run?

2017-09-13 Thread Bill Horne
For future demands, I recommend a Siamese multi-mode fiber to each drop, run to a central patching station. Choose the most common connectors, but be sure all your "edge" devices are fiber capable and are designed both for multi-mode fiber (not single-mode) and the connectors you choose. For ex

Re: [Discuss] Future-proofing a house for networking -- what to run?

2017-09-13 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 12:16:22PM -0400, Daniel Barrett wrote: > On September 13, 2017, Dan Ritter wrote: > >A field of view about 180 degrees wide, 135 degrees high, 1 arc > >minute in minimum pixel size [...] > >180 * 135 * 60 * 60 * 100 * 48 = 41990400, > >420 billion bits per second. > >Co

Re: [Discuss] Future-proofing a house for networking -- what to run?

2017-09-13 Thread Daniel Barrett
On September 13, 2017, Dan Ritter wrote: >A field of view about 180 degrees wide, 135 degrees high, 1 arc >minute in minimum pixel size [...] >180 * 135 * 60 * 60 * 100 * 48 = 41990400, >420 billion bits per second. >Compress 100:1, we're still at 4.2Gb/s... In order to be marketable, they'll

Re: [Discuss] Future-proofing a house for networking -- what to run?

2017-09-13 Thread Robert Krawitz
On Wed, 13 Sep 2017 11:38:36 -0400, Richard Pieri wrote: > 1080p video streams (MPEG-4) need about 5-8 Mbps burst bandwidth. > Gigabit Ethernet has practical throughput about 300Mbps. ??? I routinely get over 100 MB/sec (>800 Mbps) transferring files -- even with scp -- between systems with fast

Re: [Discuss] Future-proofing a house for networking -- what to run?

2017-09-13 Thread Richard Pieri
On 9/13/2017 10:35 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: > You seem to be assuming that all traffic crosses into your ISP. While As a practical matter, the majority of my network traffic *does* cross into my ISP. > this may be true for your use case, it is certainly not the case for me. > I've got a MythTV se

Re: [Discuss] Future-proofing a house for networking -- what to run?

2017-09-13 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 08:16:36AM -0700, Rich Braun wrote: > Because I just don't see a need for going beyond 1Gbps within the home during > the course of my life. Maybe 10Gbps applications will materialize, but for now > there's just not much reason I'll need more than a half-dozen streams of 4K

Re: [Discuss] Future-proofing a house for networking -- what to run?

2017-09-13 Thread Rich Braun
When I used to live in Boston, I ran cat-5e to each room of, oh, 15 different Cambridge/Somerville apartments that I owned at one point or another. (My standard has been two 4-pair wires to each jack plus one RG-6.) Then when I moved to SF, I did the same thing in the house built in 1907 at the edg

Re: [Discuss] Future-proofing a house for networking -- what to run?

2017-09-13 Thread Bill Bogstad
On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 1:19 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: > > > Why is conduit everywhere not an option? > Cost of material? Time-consuming bending & fitting? > Does Code there require _steel_ conduit for low-voltage DATA cables, or can > you use certain plastics? > (Plastics are nasty when it burns, b

Re: [Discuss] Future-proofing a house for networking -- what to run?

2017-09-13 Thread Derek Atkins
Richard Pieri writes: > On 9/12/2017 1:19 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: >> I'm glad to hear there's someone even slower to adopt real broadband >> than I was. > > I have real broadband: FiOS, 50/50Mbps. Had it since it became available > in my neighborhood. It's just that the slowest WiFi devices I have

Re: [Discuss] Future-proofing a house for networking -- what to run?

2017-09-13 Thread Kent Borg
On 09/13/2017 09:34 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: I'd like to do it myself again, but I now have 2 small kids, so I'm not sure how I'll be able to spend the 40-60 man-hours at the construction site. That brings up another consideration: When asking someone else to build it, the more standard your r

Re: [Discuss] Future-proofing a house for networking -- what to run?

2017-09-13 Thread Derek Atkins
Shirley Márquez Dúlcey writes: >> Indeed. I'm thinking not just IP, but also possibly HDBaseT. I'm going >> to run separate Cat5e for my PoE security cameras (which only need 100mbps). > > If you're doing it yourself the wire cost matters. If somebody else is > doing it, the wire cost is insign