14-01-2012, 09:02
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Re: Wired home network
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.
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19-01-2012, 14:27
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#17
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Location: In the thick of East Anglia
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Re: Wired home network
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Originally Posted by TheNorm
Even with shielded twisted pair cable?
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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.
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28-02-2012, 20:08
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#18
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Re: Wired home network
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Originally Posted by philwhite100
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.
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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?
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28-02-2012, 20:21
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Location: Near Hungerford, West Berkshire
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Re: Wired home network
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Originally Posted by Capricorn
Four homeplugs with passthru cost me £150. Who needs the hassle and expense of fixed network ports?
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A piece of cable and a couple of connectors / faceplates cost about £20.
There's your answer!
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28-02-2012, 20:49
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#20
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Re: Wired home network
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Originally Posted by LSainsbury
A piece of cable and a couple of connectors / faceplates cost about £20.
There's your answer!
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Does that quote include chasing the walls out and having them replastered? 
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28-02-2012, 21:04
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Re: Wired home network
No....it includes a box of cable clips though!
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18-03-2012, 22:39
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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
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18-03-2012, 22:46
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Re: Wired home network
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Originally Posted by RB2004
300mbit wifi can expect to provide about 50mbit if you are lucky.
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Funny, my 300mbit wifi provides 243mbit.
If only I were that lucky with the ladies instead of just with wifi?
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19-03-2012, 14:32
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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.
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19-03-2012, 15:27
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Join Date: Aug 2004
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Re: Wired home network
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Originally Posted by RB2004
How did you test that speed?
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Using a UDP flooder.
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To use a speedtest site you need a connection faster than 243mbit to test that.
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My connection is 1000mbit.
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Wouldn't go by what windows tells you that you are connected at,
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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.
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Over the internet using a speedtest site I get 169mbps
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