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    I thought I would do some more today

    So, this morning, after writing my last blog entry I have done some tweaks and re-wires of my home.

    Previously the entire house was setup to use things wirelessly. It was orignally a 11mbit/s network, which about 3 months ago I changed to a 54G network. This meant I could connect to anything from anywhere, all well and good if your moving around but you don't have the kick and speed of a cat5 cable. So, today I decided that I would run some cables. I now have a cable from my ADSL box to the Cellar - which has a switch in it - which connects to:

    a. test bench
    b. exchange server
    c. fileserver
    d. sysnology box (400GB NAS box).

    When I get the new Media server I will no doubt end up having that down there too. Whilst running this cable I also thought I would run one from the ADSL box, up the side of the house in to the loft. Almost a smart idea, until I noticed there was no sockets in the loft, so I had to run this back down in to my office (lucky on the 1st floor of the house.)

    The point in all of this? Well - if I have media centres in every room and I want to be able to move files around them - wireless just won't do the job.

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    You have too much spare time on your hands

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    Do have pictures of your masterpiece?
    Bored of the old one, new one coming soon

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    There is going to be some picture soon

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    Yeah, wired in the house is a nice setup, if the parents/significant other/kids/dog don't get angry at you for having cables going everywhere. So you've got to get it wired up properly, behind the walls stuff, which is oh so neat, but oh so expensive.

    Wireless does suck for moving stuff about though.

    Why can't wireless just get up to 108Mb/s officially and functionally

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    I run single cables and switches....


    ... No point running more.

    Also - I have a 250 year old house, so behind walls... hmm no ta...

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