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Old 17-06-2007, 13:40   #4
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Re: New router 1G

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Originally Posted by GeoffW View Post
By 1G do you mean a Gigabit Lan? I'm not sure why you want that much bandwidth at home, but you'll need cat 5e.

802.11n is not due to be standardised till this time next year and is not compatibile with b or g, although some pre-N kit may have g support as well.
So Cat5 is "no go" with Gigabit Lan

I need the bandwidth for uploading laptop backup files to the server, 2 kids watching movies stored on the server but basically, a gigabit switch is only 22 quid and my current router was playing up...
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