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Honestly, modern meshes are fine. I Have clients with large families, everyone streaming at Netflix O'Clock, and the three-pack of Eeros they picked up handle
by Baeocystin 3y ago
Honestly, modern meshes are fine. I Have clients with large families, everyone streaming at Netflix O'Clock, and the three-pack of Eeros they picked up handle everything without a single hiccup. My last house, many years ago, I did wire up with CAT5e. If I build again in the future, I may not bother.
- ghaff 3y agoAs I wrote elsewhere, I've had a fair bit of Ethernet installed when walls were open and other electrical work was being done anyway. But this was years ago and a lot of what I do is over wireless these days. It's probably still a good idea to run some network wiring depending on the house layout but, with meshes, it's probably not really necessary--especially if at least some of the high bandwidth equipment is wired.
- Baeocystin 3y agoYeah, I do technically have a few runs, for a pair of PoE security cameras. I wound up moving my Synology out of my office in to the garage (it was a rackmount unit, with screeching fans), just plugged in to one of my satellite Eeros, and I literally can't tell in terms of bandwidth. I'm not complaining, it's nice to not have to worry about wires!
- ghaff 3y agoMy Synology is fairly low-end one. It's "only" something like a 1.8TB RAID-1. (I think it was probably cheaper than operating my old Linux box with btrfs to do the same thing.) But, yeah, I plug my various wired stuff in where it's convenient but basically don't sweat the details.