So fun owning a house and being single

[jEnus]

I wired my whole house when I had it built. I'll post some pictures if anyone is interested.

 

[zoiks]

Originally posted by: jEnus
I wired my whole house when I had it built. I'll post some pictures if anyone is interested.

Post em! I'd like to see what other ways people do this.

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: Phokus

Originally posted by: FoBoT
dude, wireless, wires are so '90's

Seriously, use wireless and then work on other projects to make the house look nice. What a waste of time/money.

he specified working on/ fixing others computers. youll need a wired link for a lot of that if wireless is not on a desk top station.

i have wireless for most of the house, my office has 16ft of desk top plus a separate desk. i have 3 workstations set up for family use, as well as 3 extra stations for working on computers, fully powered and wired to go. i keep the mess to my office and use wireless for everything else that may be needed.

 

[imported_inspire]

no BTX or anything to protect the cat6?

 

[Mike Gayner]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
dude, wireless, wires are so '90's

No, fail. Wireless is shit. I've been using wireless for 2.5 years now and I'm fucking sick of it. Every house should ahve wireless, but every main computer/room should be wired also.

 

[DukeN]

That is plenum rated cable right?

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

Originally posted by: Evadman

Originally posted by: FoBoT
dude, wireless, wires are so '90's

You ever try streaming HD over wireless? Ha! Maybe when wireless N's replacement comes out in a decade. Even wireless N isn't official yet.

10 gigabit wired is where it's at. The best you can hope for wireless is a paltry 300 mb/s.

N went official a few weeks ago.

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

why wouldn't a "wife" let you do something like this?
do you date total bitches?
and if you've never had a gf before, do you believe everything that you read and hear about women and just regurgitate it?

 

[lokiju]

Why wouldn't a wife let you?

I wired my whole house with 1GB connections.

Every room has it.

 

[gevorg]

wife wouldn't let me, wife wouldn't let me, wife wouldn't let me, ...

:thumbsdown:

 

[MrMatt]

Originally posted by: mugs
My wife let me and encouraged it. I'd post pics, but it's kind of messy right now

Long story short I ran:
4x Cat6 to 2nd and 3rd bedroom
4x Cat6 to family room
2x Cat6 to garage

1x Cat5e for phones (I had it left over from something else) to 2nd, 3rd bedroom and garage

RG-6 for TV to 2nd, 3rd bedroom, garage, family room (2x), master bedroom

It all runs back to my basement where I have a 24 port patch panel, 16 port switch, 4 port router, vonage box, cable modem, 10 db cable amplifier with 8 way splitter, NAS drive, media server <Tim Allen grunt>

why? Do you find all that useful? I like the sound of doing stuff like that, but I never can think of any practical reason to

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: Evadman

Originally posted by: FoBoT
dude, wireless, wires are so '90's

You ever try streaming HD over wireless? Ha! Maybe when wireless N's replacement comes out in a decade. Even wireless N isn't official yet.

10 gigabit wired is where it's at. The best you can hope for wireless is a paltry 300 mb/s.

Its official as of last month.

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: PingSpike

Originally posted by: nerp

Originally posted by: FoBoT
dude, wireless, wires are so '90's

For a desktop, though, having a direct line to the network is a hell of a lot better than dealing with USB dongle nipples or add-in cards and antennae.

Not to mention how much faster, more reliable and more secure it is. Wireless is crap. Its ONLY advantage is the lack of wires.

Why does it have to be all wireless or all wires? Why can't it be both - some wires, some wireless?

 

[QuantumPion]

That's nothing, you should see my house. My living room is a home theater with wires going all over the place and the projector smack in the middle of the room on a shelf.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
dude, wireless, wires are so '90's

Wires don't drop out every half hour, are still faster, and 99.9999% secure from localized eavesdropping. (I'm not saying 100 because maybe one day someone will figure a way to capture the magnetic fields from far and decode the session. I doubt it though. )

Sure there's WEP (Easy to crack) and WPA and such, but wired is so much simpler and more reliable.

Wireless is great for temp setups where you'll go sit on the couch with a laptop or let visit use your internet, etc. For a permanent workstation / office nothing beats wired.

Eventually I want to go voip throughout the whole house too, so I ran cat6 for even the phones so all I need to do is change the ends.

I'm seriously considering an IVR if I start getting too many telemarketers.

 

[kalrith]

Originally posted by: Juddog

Originally posted by: vi edit

Originally posted by: Phokus

Originally posted by: FoBoT
dude, wireless, wires are so '90's

Seriously, use wireless and then work on other projects to make the house look nice. What a waste of time/money.

HD streaming over wireless = not cool.

^^ Exactly; I tried streaming 720p and even that was too much for wireless to handle without constant stuttering; 1080p? Forget about it.

I was coming in to post this. I'll be running cat6 under the house to connect my HTPC and gaming PC so that I can stream 1080i and 720p to my gaming PC. You don't even need gigabit. 100MB wired is much better for streaming than any wireless out there.

I'll be lifting up the edge of the carpet and drilling holes in the floor for the cat6. I did the same thing with the cable for my TV antenna. My wife's fine with the holes as long as I don't put any in the carpet. I'll be running speaker wire down into the crawl space and then up through the walls with a sizeable hole in the walls for that and the wall anchor for my surround speakers. She's fine with that as well. As long as I don't do anything noticeably destructive or sloppy (i.e. no exposed speaker cables), she's fine with all of it.

 

[Gunslinger08]

Meh, I just use wireless. I don't do anything that crazy on the internet that 12mbit can't handle.

 

[arcenite]

Gigabit > Wireless

 

[Red Squirrel]

Originally posted by: joshsquall
Meh, I just use wireless. I don't do anything that crazy on the internet that 12mbit can't handle.

Not so much the internet, but LAN. Ex: copy stuff from one pc to the other, streaming media, RDP/VNC to other servers etc. Backup jobs also take less time, but I schedule those late at night so that part is less of an issue.

 

[rh71]

why wouldn't someone else let you do that? My house is wired like that from the former owner who was also a married IT guy.

Anyway, that was back in '02ish and wireless kind of prevails now even if it is slower. I will admit I won't even attempt to stream 1GB+ files wirelessly.

 

[SammyJr]

Originally posted by: Phokus

Originally posted by: FoBoT
dude, wireless, wires are so '90's

Seriously, use wireless and then work on other projects to make the house look nice. What a waste of time/money.

Depends on your usage. I tried wireless yet again when we moved into our new house last year. Still didn't work right for streaming DVDs, let alone Blu-ray. Wired works perfectly, though.

My wife had no problem with the wiring. She likes being able to watch ripped DVDs and what not while on the treadmill or in bed.

 

[SammyJr]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
I'd love to do that but:

-I have blow in insulation in the attic which makes it a nightmare
-I have no floorboards in the attic to get around on
-My joists are so low and complicated in the attic that I'd have to crawl around on the unsupported insulation to wire the house

I'm jealous.

I have the same layout in my attic. I hired a firm that has workers who specialize in data cabling and they were able to get it done. It only cost $1400 for a total of 12 drops, 8 of which were routed through the attic. This included the Cat5e cable and all that.

It was initially pricey, but I can't see replacing Cat5e drops for years and years and years.

If I had to do it myself, it would never have been done or would have been done poorly.

 

[zanejohnson]

i was convinced i was coming into this thread to see stripper on stripper action...

a patch panel...are you kidding me...

 

[Bateluer]

Originally posted by: Juddog

Originally posted by: Phokus

Originally posted by: FoBoT
dude, wireless, wires are so '90's

Seriously, use wireless and then work on other projects to make the house look nice. What a waste of time/money.

Seriously wireless sucks compared to CAT 6 / gigabit.

Yep. Wireless blows for a great many things. Cat 5e/100Mbit is infinitely preferable over wireless in my opinion.

I don't have a basement in my house, so I'd have to run through the attic. Should have done it before they blew in the new insulation, but I didn't have the funds to do a wiring project then and I wanted to save some cash on the electric bill.

 

[Gunslinger08]

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel

Originally posted by: joshsquall
Meh, I just use wireless. I don't do anything that crazy on the internet that 12mbit can't handle.

Not so much the internet, but LAN. Ex: copy stuff from one pc to the other, streaming media, RDP/VNC to other servers etc. Backup jobs also take less time, but I schedule those late at night so that part is less of an issue.

Yeah, I don't do any of that. I don't download movies or make frequent backups, so I guess I'm not your typical ATOTer. I also don't run any servers at home - don't see the need.