Q: Cat5 v WiFi
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No, I would use cat6, or cat5e at the very least. Cat5 isn't great at medium distance gigabit ethernet (you may get away with short distances), and 802.11n is even worse (especially if you plan to have floors and walls).
harold aptroot wrote:
Cat5 isn't great at medium distance gigabit ethernet (you may get away with short distances),
He's talking about a standard suburban home, not buckingham palace. :rolleyes:
Regards, Nish
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harold aptroot wrote:
Cat5 isn't great at medium distance gigabit ethernet (you may get away with short distances),
He's talking about a standard suburban home, not buckingham palace. :rolleyes:
Regards, Nish
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He's not Sir Losinger ??! :-\
Watched code never compiles.
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He's not Sir Losinger ??! :-\
Watched code never compiles.
Maximilien wrote:
He's not Sir Losinger ??! :->
He was de-knighted for using
gotoonce.Regards, Nish
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Maximilien wrote:
He's not Sir Losinger ??! :->
He was de-knighted for using
gotoonce.Regards, Nish
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everything is a goto, at some level.
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everything is a goto, at some level.
Well, you should have tried saying that when they de-knighted you. :-D
Regards, Nish
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harold aptroot wrote:
Cat5 isn't great at medium distance gigabit ethernet (you may get away with short distances),
He's talking about a standard suburban home, not buckingham palace. :rolleyes:
Regards, Nish
My technology blog: voidnish.wordpress.com You've gotta read this : Using lambdas - C++ vs. C# vs. C++/CX vs. C++/CLI
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hypothetically... if you were building a new house, would you install cat5 in all the rooms, or would you just use WiFi ?
I would put the network cable in given the opportunity, that way I would have a choice. Consider just limited the network cable to the room designated as the office, possibly add a network closet, and run a few other cables to key far reaching end-points in the house. Otherwise, the majority of devices (Other than computers) support wifi, so you can always upgrade your wireless network to suite your needs as technology changes.
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hypothetically... if you were building a new house, would you install cat5 in all the rooms, or would you just use WiFi ?
Wired every time. It doesn't prevent your using WiFi but is there just in case. Especially, as others have said, considering the relatively minimal cost at construction time rather than retro fitting. It can also depend on the materials being used in the construction[^].
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hypothetically... if you were building a new house, would you install cat5 in all the rooms, or would you just use WiFi ?
CAT5 for sure. IMHO, WiFi is a nice-to-have. /ravi
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everything is a goto, at some level.
Except an assignment statement. :) /ravi
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hypothetically... if you were building a new house, would you install cat5 in all the rooms, or would you just use WiFi ?
I prefer Wi-Fi. You can use it everywhere you want.
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hypothetically... if you were building a new house, would you install cat5 in all the rooms, or would you just use WiFi ?
Others have specified cable vs wireless, with which I concur... except that I would recommend running conduit between some major sections of the house. CAT-5, CAT-6 or CAT-47 will not be 'current' standards forever, and if you plan on being in the house for a decade or more, you will wish you had a way to add the latest cable standard without tearing out walls.
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I prefer Wi-Fi. You can use it everywhere you want.
Having the house wired doesn't mean you can't use WiFi concurrently...
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CAT5 for sure. IMHO, WiFi is a nice-to-have. /ravi
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yep... plus WiFi routers aren't that expensive nowadays... so you can always add that...
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hypothetically... if you were building a new house, would you install cat5 in all the rooms, or would you just use WiFi ?
Definitely wired. I also have wireless. I wanted to make it secured, but my kid has a Nintendo DS that can use wireless, but won't use the latest security. If you have any devices that won't use security, or have guests to whom you don't want to have to give a password, you may find that wired is more convenient (provided it's in every room).
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yep... plus WiFi routers aren't that expensive nowadays... so you can always add that...
Very true. /ravi
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yep... plus WiFi routers aren't that expensive nowadays... so you can always add that...
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Others have specified cable vs wireless, with which I concur... except that I would recommend running conduit between some major sections of the house. CAT-5, CAT-6 or CAT-47 will not be 'current' standards forever, and if you plan on being in the house for a decade or more, you will wish you had a way to add the latest cable standard without tearing out walls.
-- Harvey
As slowly as new wired platforms are deployed running conduit only makes sense if you're planning several decades into the future. Cat6 will give you 37m in a hostile cross talk environment for 10gb, which should be plenty for almost all residential installs (if not, 6a is rated for a full 100m) and cover you for at least a decade. Longer term I'd probably pull cat7, and gamble that 100GB ethernet will be made to work on it eventaully (simulations from a few years ago indicate it might need cat7a, which doesn't appear to be readily available). At the same time, unless you're doing wierd routing for some reason, I think conduit is probably overkill. Just run all of your cables vertically from the jack to the basement, and then horizontal in the basement to the router (popping up there if your networking gear is on the 1st floor). When I helped my dad rewire most of the electrical in the house doing strait vertical runs for new installs wasn't a problem, nor was replacement since the old wire could be used to pull the new one. Installing conduit in the walls OTOH would require significantly more effort, and based on my experiance probably isn't needed.
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It's not the worst thing in the world, as long as u have decent security settings. Heart of the problem is most applications aren't built for any type of application layer security, so once in the air, hackers only have one layer to get through to get to data. Plus people hardly ever take the time to choose safe settings.
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hypothetically... if you were building a new house, would you install cat5 in all the rooms, or would you just use WiFi ?
You can always add WiFi later. Cable? That gets tricky and messy if you haven't laid it out to begin with. And there's the obvious point: Wifi is still nowhere near as fast as Cat5/6. If you have a file server and deal with large files, wired will still make your life so much nicer for your tethered computers
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