[olug] [OT] Buying Cat5 cable locally...best price?

[T. J. Brumfield]

IPTV and streaming high def movies are a reason for wired connections over
802.11n.

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Obi-Wan <obiwan at jedi.com> wrote:

> > And everyone that I've talked to about this has questioned why I even ran
> > cable in the first place.  The average homeowner (present list company
> > excluded) seem to be just fine with the 802.11b/g/n solutions.
>
> <sigh>  I suppose most people don't move stuff around between computers
> inside their own house, do they?
>
> > Nope, it'll be the next homeowners problem then. :)
> > At least I was nice and ran a 1.5" PVC pipe up a central wall from the
> > basement to the attic.  Re-pulling the cable will be much easier for
> them.
>
> I'm designing a new house now, in which I plan to grow old & die.
> Future-proofing is everything, which is why I intend to run two
> large (4" preferred) PVC conduits from basement to attic in opposite
> corners of the house.  It'll have at least two cat6 runs to every
> room, just in case.
>
> I'm tired of my current practice of trotting down to the basement
> with the laptop every time I want to run a backup to my central
> server, just because doing so over the air takes 10x as long.
>
> And then there's the high def media / DLNA servers that I'll probably
> have before long...
>
> --
> Ben "Obi-Wan" Hollingsworth    obiwan at jedi.com    PrairieRimImages.com
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