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When I had my house built, I purchased a 1000' roll of CAT 3 wire (it was a few years ago), and the builder gave me ONE DAY to do what I needed to do to wire up the place. I ran 2 wires into each room, and had ALL of the runs end in the basement. This allowed me to have my telephone and internet come into every room (and NOT paying the builder's price of $50-$100/drop). Although wireless is "easier" to deploy, if you are building a house, its worth your time (4-8 hours) and money ($50 box of cable) to pull those wires. Its easy, cheap and SECURE for both internet and telephone.
Posted by: Roger Ramjet   Posted on: 06/16/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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House building  Roger Ramjet | 06/16/05
Mr. WiMax! Why you are a bigot! happy  Been_Done_Before | 06/20/05
Good but not effcient enough  jfp | 06/16/05
Like I said, the more wires the better  george_ou | 06/16/05
Cable to every room?  S.Howard-Sarin ZDNet Moderator | 06/20/05
TalkBack: Reply to message Re: Good but not effcient enough  none none | 06/20/05
wiring a new home  pesky_z | 06/16/05
Conduit is always nice  george_ou | 06/16/05
CAT6  Yagotta B. Kidding | 06/16/05
Conduit and CAT-6 are not mutually exclusive  george_ou | 06/16/05
well of course you need something IN the conduit  pesky_z | 06/16/05
CAT-5 will work for a long time, but you might as well put in CAT-6  george_ou | 06/16/05
RTFP?  Yagotta B. Kidding | 06/16/05
Contradictory statements?  george_ou | 06/16/05
Not really  Yagotta B. Kidding | 06/17/05
Somebody give YBK a hell ya....  rga858@... | 06/17/05
Like I said, conduit is great  george_ou | 06/17/05
Wire was just fine  S.Howard-Sarin ZDNet Moderator | 06/20/05
You know what would be nice?  none none | 06/20/05
Wire vs conduit  Hotshot3000 | 08/02/05
completely wireless networks become reality...  pesky_z | 06/16/05
Again, always will need both  george_ou | 06/16/05
Good article, George!  Kamikaze_Ohka | 06/16/05
Thanks, but no need for fibre in the home  george_ou | 06/16/05
Just thinking about the future...  Kamikaze_Ohka | 06/16/05
When the time comes, I'll push the cheaper solution  george_ou | 06/16/05
Economy is important...  Kamikaze_Ohka | 06/16/05
Speaking of fibre...  Kamikaze_Ohka | 06/16/05
Multimode cabling is the best way to go  george_ou | 06/16/05
We're running single mode fibre...  Kamikaze_Ohka | 06/16/05
Multimode will suffice  george_ou | 06/16/05
Thanks I'll check that out.  Kamikaze_Ohka | 06/16/05
(For a dedicated line.)  Kamikaze_Ohka | 06/16/05
Finite bandwidth with wireless  george_ou | 06/16/05
I'd rather have...  Kamikaze_Ohka | 06/16/05
Use encryption.  george_ou | 06/16/05
Interestingly....  Kamikaze_Ohka | 06/16/05
Gaming system!?!  S.Howard-Sarin ZDNet Moderator | 06/20/05
Structured Wiring for New Houses  tomt_z | 06/17/05
The Wiki link I provided has more info on CAT-6  george_ou | 06/17/05
Where to put the big pipes  S.Howard-Sarin ZDNet Moderator | 06/20/05
Definitely next to the Tivo and XBOX360 or PS3  george_ou | 06/22/05
One caution..  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/20/05
You got that right!  Hotshot3000 | 08/02/05
???Question  crenwelge | 06/24/05
You need the router too. Check the links in original blog  george_ou | 06/24/05
WPA vs WPA2  spanman | 07/16/05
Some WPA implementations have AES  george_ou | 07/21/05
windows xp  mattpk | 09/09/05
House built in 1920, wired cat-5e  hawkeyeaz1 | 07/24/06

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