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Blanka:

--- Quote from: MonMotha on October 11, 2010, 04:06:04 pm ---Basically, pipe that you run wires and such through rather than just running them directly through walls and such.
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American paper-houses thing thus.
Here pipes are obligatory, and with non-hollow walls very practical to get the wire under the stuco anyway.

Flake:
How does one connect a server to the internet AND to my workstations?  Can access to both go through one ethernet cable? 

If so how would that work? 

For instance, lets say I have AT&T uverse internet coming into the basement.  All my ethernet ports (2 for each room) are running from each room down to the basement where the internet services comes in.  If I were to place my server in the basement next to the centralized ethernet ports and internet service, what would be the recommended connections/setup for all rooms to have access to both the internet and server via wired connection and have the best possible speed to each?

upprc04:

--- Quote from: Flake on October 14, 2010, 03:01:10 pm ---How does one connect a server to the internet AND to my workstations?  Can access to both go through one ethernet cable? 

If so how would that work? 

For instance, lets say I have AT&T uverse internet coming into the basement.  All my ethernet ports (2 for each room) are running from each room down to the basement where the internet services comes in.  If I were to place my server in the basement next to the centralized ethernet ports and internet service, what would be the recommended connections/setup for all rooms to have access to both the internet and server via wired connection and have the best possible speed to each?

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Your internet service should be coming in through a modem.  You should connect that modem to a router which will share the internet connection with several computers.  All the computers/workstations should be connected to the router.  This will put all your computers on a private network and all will have access to the internet.

saint:

--- Quote from: Flake on October 14, 2010, 03:01:10 pm ---How does one connect a server to the internet AND to my workstations?  Can access to both go through one ethernet cable? 

If so how would that work? 

For instance, lets say I have AT&T uverse internet coming into the basement.  All my ethernet ports (2 for each room) are running from each room down to the basement where the internet services comes in.  If I were to place my server in the basement next to the centralized ethernet ports and internet service, what would be the recommended connections/setup for all rooms to have access to both the internet and server via wired connection and have the best possible speed to each?

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Install a switch, connect the switch to the router. Use gigabit switches, they're cheap enough now.

Internet_Connection<----->Router_(wired_or_wireless_doesn't_matter)<----->Switch<----->Household_ethernet_cabling_to_rooms<----->computer_or_switch

Flake:
So if my server and workstation/HTPC computers can all connect to each other and access the internet service via one ethernet cable why would anyone recommend installing more than one wired ethernet connection in a room?

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