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 Sunday, November 27, 2005
started 11/27/2005; 3:59:10 PM - last post 11/28/2005; 7:26:34 PM
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Doc Searls - Sunday, November 27, 2005 
11/27/2005; 7:59:10 PM (reads: 3798, responses: 2)
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| | Building an Open Source House is my latest over at Linux Journal. I'm looking for some last-minute home audio/video/networking advice here, before the sheet rock goes up in the new house we're building. |
| | So far several commenters have sung the praises of Slimdevices ' Squeezebox. All other advice is, of course, welcome. |
| | As I said in that piece, this will be our seventh address in seven years. It will also, I hope, be our last. Enough moving already. |
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Sam Abuelsamid - Re: Sunday, November 27, 2005
11/28/2005; 2:28:13 AM (reads: 380, responses: 1)
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If you can, run cat6 cable everywhere and put a network drop next to every electrical outlet. Ethernet remains faster and more reliable than any wireless tech and pretty much every new motherboard has built in gigabit ethernet.
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Andrew Leyden - Ethernet in the walls
11/28/2005; 11:26:34 PM (reads: 451, responses: 0)
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Just an aside, and you may already know this, but make sure the guys running the Ethernet cable aren't doing it like phone cable, i.e. no 90 degree turns, tacked into the wall with a brad, etc. Sometimes the guys who run cables say "it's all just wire" but with Ethernet you can get some distortion and slower speeds with sharp turns, kinks, and other "standard" wire running practices. Not sure about proximity to electrical cables and whether that will affect speed, etc.
I strongly recommend running conduit, if you can. Who knows what is going to be in there in the future.
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