wireless home lan
 

I really don't want to drill through the floor to wire my wife's PC in her craft room. Anybody have any recommendations?

The real fun is in the drilling. When i setup my home network, i toar down walls, ripped out heating ducts, blew up the toilet and ran cables through the fridge. But it works.

Drill it. Do it right. I wouldn't trust that wireless home junk from Radio Shack as far as I can throw it... I'm a firm believer in hard wired Cat5. http://bbs.gofuckyourself.net/board/wink.gif

okay. I'm lazy. Should I stick with cat5 for a backbone? I'm going with a 10/100 switch upstairs and downstairs.

wireless is thing to do,,
unless you plan on running cat 5 in the bathroom http://bbs.gofuckyourself.net/board/smile.gif


i have the SMC wireless barricade
and the lucent orinco card

its great,,,i go on my balcony and work if i wanted too...

and it only cost like $300.00 total

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Unless you have fiber laying around http://bbs.gofuckyourself.net/board/biggrin.gif

Well, when I used to do this sort of thing for AT&T, I recommended to my customers (that could afford it) to wire the whole house in dual-run plenum CAT5, and take them all back to a main patch panel, somewhere like in the garage or the crawl door. Plenum isn't really necessary for non-plenum areas, but it's not like you're wiring the Sony building, and it's easier to run one solid line than to splice, (and especially CAT5... if you fuck it up, it'll never work) so why not spend the extra few bucks and make sure you're covered for code if anything in the future should arise... (unless you plan to live there for the rest of your life)... do every room you can foresee ever having the need... and then do the rest just in case. Why? Because CAT5 can be used for more than just Ethernet. Maybe next year you wanna add some phones.... or a high-end audio system with remote multi-room speakers and wall panels... so even if you don't use them right away, it's much easier to run the lines while you're in there the first time than to have to go back in and try to do it later.

Is this a multi-level house or all ground floor? Wall fishing can be a bitch if you're inexperienced. Try to stay in the crawl if at all possible...

I've got a friend who does cabling for a living and charges $35 / hour. I was wondering if there was CAT6 or something like that now.

Problem is I'm not sure if his wife is pissed at me, she quit and I took her job as manager (that's a whole 'nother fucking nightmare I can't wait to get out of).

You can find everything you need at a Home Depot, with maybe the exception of a punchdown tool, patch panel, router,... which you should be able to find at a big electronics store like Fry's or Circuit City or something... $35 per hour isn't bad.... but it's still going to be a big bill. Running wire through walls isn't done in an hour or two. http://bbs.gofuckyourself.net/board/wink.gif If I were you, I'd try to get your friend's advice and maybe some help, (offer him beer... that always works), but do it yourself if you're confident. Get a book and do some reading.... it's not really that hard... just alot of work. If you're not confident, then definitely give up the green and have a pro do it... it'll be worth it to have it done right. http://bbs.gofuckyourself.net/board/wink.gif

qcmoney,

I use a wireless network at home and it is great.

I use the Dlink system, it very plug and play. Very little configuration needed, install the software and plug in the cards
and your off. I would not go back to hard wired!



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Wiring the house is the way to go if you plan on staying there for a while... think of it as an investment. And it will increase the value of the home... but if you live in a condo like me, (and I'm moving to Maui in the spring), not planning to be permanent, get one of those wireless gizmos or just get a small router and run a quick line under the carpet to the other systems. http://bbs.gofuckyourself.net/board/wink.gif

Hey Mike_69, I set up a home once that was using something called an "Air-port"...? (wireless LAN) They were running all Mac Cubes, but I was wondering if you've ever tried that thing, and does it work only for Macs?

Why Maui? I lived on Oahu for ten years, I think I would probably move back to Maui myself. The Big Island and Kauai are nice too, but my wife would get island fever, and she's from Oahu.

http://www.qcmoney.com/images/kauai-arch.jpg

This is Kauai; my wife took a nice picture off the Napali coast.

My girl and I love it there. http://bbs.gofuckyourself.net/board/wink.gif We've been planning this move since July and can't wait. She makes more money than Bin Laden and I can do this stuff from anywhere, so we made the decision and we're halfway through the planning. We were originally were shooting for March, but it's lookin' more like mid-summer actually... (not something that can be done overnight ya know)... but yeah... Maui is the place for us. We love it. We both love diving, snorkeling, sailing, jet-skiing... just can't get enough. Kaanapali or Kahana... somewhere on the west side... we're still lookin' for the right place. http://bbs.gofuckyourself.net/board/wink.gif

I think for time sake, I will go wireless for now. I can re-use it in a studio later when I wire my house.

Pic I took in Maui last July...

http://www.theheadless.com/randomjunk/maui001.jpg

Where else can you walk around on the bottom of the ocean in crystal blue 80 degree water and have 200 beautiful fish swimming around you? http://bbs.gofuckyourself.net/board/biggrin.gif

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