Comments on: Home Networking http://www.richard-slater.co.uk/archives/2007/09/01/home-networking/ Jesus, Life, Programming and Systems Administration Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:39:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Adam Gent http://www.richard-slater.co.uk/archives/2007/09/01/home-networking/comment-page-1/#comment-218 Adam Gent Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:25:34 +0000 http://www.richard-slater.co.uk/archives/2007/09/01/home-networking/#comment-218 Personally I would go with the wired network, I have not used terminating boxes at home, instead putting a plug ont he cable from the wall and leaving enough spare to reach the computer / network device. This saves quite a lot of money. For cheaper cabling try brighton electrical wholesalers (such as BDC). Borrow tools from work? On homeplug you would need to check that all your devices were on the same power ring or interconnects are needed. Wireless I find personally fine for flexible coverage (just for laptops, pdas etc) but I dont like it for proper system use - workstations, servers etc. I am using 100mb ethernet cat5, longest cable run is 30m from switch to server cabinet in utility room (very small cabinet, more of a shelf :P) with an ancient compaq WL400 802.11b wireless AP for general coverage. I sense this was posted ages ago and you have a solution by now? Adam Personally I would go with the wired network, I have not used terminating boxes at home, instead putting a plug ont he cable from the wall and leaving enough spare to reach the computer / network device. This saves quite a lot of money.

For cheaper cabling try brighton electrical wholesalers (such as BDC).

Borrow tools from work?

On homeplug you would need to check that all your devices were on the same power ring or interconnects are needed.

Wireless I find personally fine for flexible coverage (just for laptops, pdas etc) but I dont like it for proper system use – workstations, servers etc.

I am using 100mb ethernet cat5, longest cable run is 30m from switch to server cabinet in utility room (very small cabinet, more of a shelf :P ) with an ancient compaq WL400 802.11b wireless AP for general coverage.

I sense this was posted ages ago and you have a solution by now?

Adam

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