8 Oct
2012
8 Oct
'12
9:38 a.m.
Absolutely. My wife thinks I'm nuts for putting
in the time and effort
to figure out how to run a bundle of Ethernet and fiber cables through
the walls of our nearly 100-year-old house ("Don't we have wireless?").
It was totally worth figuring out how to bend a 10-foot length of 2"
PVC conduit to go into the ceiling of our 6-foot basement, though (fun
fact: 2" PVC conduit can bend nearly 90 degrees if you work hard enough
at it). I'm not sorry at all, though; all our wiring goes neatly into
the basement where the big switch is, and I have full gigabit wiring to
my office on the second floor (and OM-3 fiber for when 10 gig is more
within my range).
Wow. I just have my T1 run, which is 60' of two lengths of UV grade Cat5e
(one pair in one jacket, the other pair in the other jacket, with hand-wired
jacks) through external flex ducts, and then three main backbone lines
(10Mbit, 100Mbit and gig) between the server room and the office, wired into
the attic. I split up the traffic so that I could segregate them by speed.
The rest of the house uses relatively low-speed power line networking; I don't
trust wireless.
The T1 modem and the backbone switches and hubs sit in the server room,
plus the exit node for the powerline Ethernet.
I remember drilling the entry hole for the T1 lines and scaring a paper wasp
nest. As a pasty white nerd, I don't think I've ever run that fast.
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