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| Dawgz Rule:
If you are going wired, your best option is to home run each room to a switch. Cat5e is rated for 1000 Mbps and would be fine. Depending on your home layout, wireless may be an easier option. Wireless AC is rated at 1300 Mbps. Throw a USB wireless adapter in each PC and away you go. |
| Zebidee:
CAT 5e is 100mbps rated you need CAT6 and sore fingers for 1000mbps |
| Typefighter01:
--- Quote from: yotsuya on January 04, 2021, 09:45:01 pm ---Hey bro, welcome back! How you been? --- End quote --- Hey Yots...I have been great. Built a house, new job as a Millwrights apprentice, two x 20month old boys and have lost 32lbs, so life is moving right along. Part of the basement finishing is a small home theatre and a little arcade room. Still have all my projects sans the jukebox which stalled. Once basement is finished I need to rebuild the Mame cab CP, so I will pop in more regularly then. How are you? --- Quote from: nitrogen_widget on January 05, 2021, 12:24:17 am ---but on the first floor i just bought long ethernet cables to run from the switch in the basement to all the first floor PC's. --- End quote --- --- Quote from: Vocalitus on January 05, 2021, 04:42:45 am ---My brother installed this switch in his bedroom, and his kids are always on their best behavior. ;D --- End quote --- Modem is on the main floor, but I gather that for sure I need a switch? Do I need a switch and a router? At first I was thinking I needed two Ethernet cables...one to a switch/router just for internet and an Ethernet cable from bedroom to bedroom. Am I safe to assume with a switch or router I can surf the net AND LAN game in the house and forgo the second cable bedroom to bedroom only? Sounds like CAT6 will do just fine and is pennies on the dollar. Could one of you fine gentlemen just confirm for me that either a switch or a router will support both surfing the net and local LAN style gaming and it will save me running a secondary redundant cable from bedroom to bedroom? |
| dmckean:
I wouldn't worry about things 10 years away, a lot could change with wifi, ethernet, internet speeds and more. |
| Howard_Casto:
--- Quote from: dmckean on January 05, 2021, 01:14:37 pm ---I wouldn't worry about things 10 years away, a lot could change with wifi, ethernet, internet speeds and more. --- End quote --- This^^^ Any type of cable you run now is going to be obsolete by the time they use it IF they even use it. My advice.... ditch the idea of a drywall ceiling as they are a pain in the ass anyway and put in some drop ceilings. Then running cable becomes infinitely easier in the future. |
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