[dba-Tech] Wireless or wired

Please note that with structured cabling (cat 5 or 6) you can use that
cables for other things to.

1) Phone, Fax and modem lines
2) USB over UTP
3) RS232 (Serial) over UTP 
4) KVM (over UTP
5) Connect networkprinter
6) all the old network stuff like twinax over utp

Speeds over utp is now max 1Gb...
Is more secure than wireless.
I do'nt know nut I do'nt want every thing beeing wireless, I do't wanna
turn my house into a giant microwave...
And my experiances with Wireless are pretty disapointing.
They get a lot of interference from other devices like wireless phones,
bluetooth etc..

I have tested SMC, D-link, Netgear boxes with always the same result.
More than 10 meters away (in house) the connections are bad and at 1Mb.
For internet that still fine, but if Am synchronising my Music files it
takes several hours instead of several minutes....
The SMC box with encryption I have resets every 5 minutes when having
heavy trafic trasnfered (1 user only)!!!

I'm hoping th boxes that work on the 5GHz freq will be working better.
They are not allowed yet in Belgium..

Erwin




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Van: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] Namens Bryan Carbonnell
Verzonden: donderdag 30 oktober 2003 2:56
Aan: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Onderwerp: Re: [dba-Tech] Wireless or wired 


On 30 Oct 2003 at 9:18, Kath Pelletti wrote:

> Can I ask - we are about to rewire (as part of a re-build) our old 
> home and that incorporates my office.
> 
> I had planned to ask for Cat5 cable throughout the house to say 6 or 7

> points for a network, given that we will never again be able to do it 
> so easily.
> 
> But is this really necessary given wireless networks? What do you all 
> think?

If the cost isn't a concern, then I would wire it. Like you said, you 
will never be able to do it so easily again.

You may not end up using it, but it's there. Although you may use it 
if you want higher transfer speeds. 802.11b has a transfer speed of 
about 11Mbps (IIRC) whereas with a  wired network you can get at 
least 100 Mbps.

Then again, I'm not a big fan of wireless at the moment.

--
Bryan Carbonnell - carbonnb at sympatico.ca
I used to have a handle on life, but it broke.


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