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TuesdayWildchild 14-01-2012 10:02
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I am lucky as this old 4 storey house use to have a gas water heater on the top floor, so I left the boxing in in place after i remove the gas pipe and threaded a cat cable in it. So now I have a 40ft cable going from bottom to top. Wireded is the best way.

Waldo Pepper 19-01-2012 15:27
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Originally Posted by TheNorm (Post 35358060)
Even with shielded twisted pair cable?
Shouldn't make any difference whatsoever. Even if not shielded twisted pair, any glitch caused by a power surge would cause a TCPIP re-request on any corrupt packet.

Capricorn 28-02-2012 21:08
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Originally Posted by philwhite100 (Post 35352881)
Does anyone on here have a wired home network.
Our BB point is upstairs and i would like some ethernet wall sockets downstairs for when i am on the laptop as wifi is terrible in our home.
I am not really interested in Homeplug type networking to be honest but running ethernet cables around the home so they are out of sight behind walls seems like a lot of work.
I use four homeplugs (two upstairs for my imac and xbox, one downstairs for the Apple TV and one connected to the router) and they simply do a great job. The wifi connection upstairs was terrible - streaming video was a buffery stuttering mess, now its smooth as. Four homeplugs with passthru cost me £150. Who needs the hassle and expense of fixed network ports?

LSainsbury 28-02-2012 21:21
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Originally Posted by Capricorn (Post 35390222)
Four homeplugs with passthru cost me £150. Who needs the hassle and expense of fixed network ports?
A piece of cable and a couple of connectors / faceplates cost about £20.

There's your answer!

Capricorn 28-02-2012 21:49
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Originally Posted by LSainsbury (Post 35390237)
A piece of cable and a couple of connectors / faceplates cost about £20.

There's your answer!
Does that quote include chasing the walls out and having them replastered? ;)

LSainsbury 28-02-2012 22:04
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No....it includes a box of cable clips though!

RB2004 18-03-2012 23:39
Where possible I always recommend cables over wifi presently.. Yes wifi is great but the technology hasn't evolved enough yet to match cabled.. Cables you can run gigabit ethernet 1000tbase but presently a 300mbit wifi can expect to provide about 50mbit if you are lucky. Which is why I went for the option of wiring house in cat 5e 2 cables to each room going back to patch panel

qasdfdsaq 18-03-2012 23:46
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Originally Posted by RB2004 (Post 35402005)
300mbit wifi can expect to provide about 50mbit if you are lucky.
Funny, my 300mbit wifi provides 243mbit.

If only I were that lucky with the ladies instead of just with wifi?

RB2004 19-03-2012 15:32
How did you test that speed? To use a speedtest site you need a connection faster than 243mbit to test that.

Wouldn't go by what windows tells you that you are connected at, because you try a speed test on 100mbit Internet and you generally max out around 50mbit if you are lucky.

qasdfdsaq 19-03-2012 16:27
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Originally Posted by RB2004 (Post 35402289)
How did you test that speed?
Using a UDP flooder.

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To use a speedtest site you need a connection faster than 243mbit to test that.
My connection is 1000mbit.

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Wouldn't go by what windows tells you that you are connected at,
If I went by what Windows tells me it would be 300, not 243.

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because you try a speed test on 100mbit Internet and you generally max out around 50mbit if you are lucky.
Over the internet using a speedtest site I get 169mbps


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