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I'm looking forward to this. I have two great rooms that may have a dozen active devices at any moment. I'm ok with the single-room applications for both of the

I'm looking forward to this. I have two great rooms that may have a dozen active devices at any moment. I'm ok with the single-room applications for both of these common areas. I can imagine a lot of similar places in offices. Cubicles could have antanae attached or be made of a material that is more willing to reflect the beams; much easier than pulling wires.

jseliger 14y ago
>I have two great rooms that may have a dozen active devices at any moment. If any of them are stationary, or mostly stationary, you might just want to run an ethernet cable. Even long ones are dirt cheap from Monoprice. For instance, I wired my iMac, my girlfriend's iMac, and leave a wire at our kitchen table, where laptops are most likely to be used, for about $12 shipped. Transferring video files between machines is now fast, and we don't have interference from neighboring networks (or vice-versa). Ethernet also makes using distributed processing using Compressor (http://documentation.apple.com/en/compressor/usermanual/index.html#chapter=8%26section=6%26tasks=true http://documentation.apple.com/en/compressor/usermanual/inde...) easy.
- elithrar 14y ago
  > If any of them are stationary, or mostly stationary, you might just want to run an ethernet cable. Even long ones are dirt cheap from Monoprice. For instance, I wired my iMac, my girlfriend's iMac, and leave a wire at our kitchen table, where laptops are most likely to be used, for about $12 shipped. I think the issue for most is not the cost of the cables, but the inconvenience (and safety hazard!) of having cables running around the house. They also typically tend to look untidy. For me it'a a decision between a wireless router (which I would need anyway) for $180-odd or an additional $200-$300 to get CAT6 wired up to two (2) rooms in the house w/ 2 sockets per faceplate (and a cheap switch to aggregate it all).
  - jseliger 14y ago
    >w/ 2 sockets per faceplate (and a cheap switch to aggregate it all). Oh—we just run it along baseboards and tape the cords in place.
- SoftwareMaven 14y ago
  The finished part of my house is completely wired with cat-5, but devices are becoming much less likely to even have an ethernet port, much less to be sitting around in a single place for it. Of the dozen devices in my room right now, six are able to be connected and, of those, four are.

jseliger 14y ago

>I have two great rooms that may have a dozen active devices at any moment. If any of them are stationary, or mostly stationary, you might just want to run an ethernet cable. Even long ones are dirt cheap from Monoprice. For instance, I wired my iMac, my girlfriend's iMac, and leave a wire at our kitchen table, where laptops are most likely to be used, for about $12 shipped. Transferring video files between machines is now fast, and we don't have interference from neighboring networks (or vice-versa). Ethernet also makes using distributed processing using Compressor (http://documentation.apple.com/en/compressor/usermanual/index.html#chapter=8%26section=6%26tasks=true http://documentation.apple.com/en/compressor/usermanual/inde...) easy.

elithrar 14y ago
> If any of them are stationary, or mostly stationary, you might just want to run an ethernet cable. Even long ones are dirt cheap from Monoprice. For instance, I wired my iMac, my girlfriend's iMac, and leave a wire at our kitchen table, where laptops are most likely to be used, for about $12 shipped. I think the issue for most is not the cost of the cables, but the inconvenience (and safety hazard!) of having cables running around the house. They also typically tend to look untidy. For me it'a a decision between a wireless router (which I would need anyway) for $180-odd or an additional $200-$300 to get CAT6 wired up to two (2) rooms in the house w/ 2 sockets per faceplate (and a cheap switch to aggregate it all).
- jseliger 14y ago
  >w/ 2 sockets per faceplate (and a cheap switch to aggregate it all). Oh—we just run it along baseboards and tape the cords in place.
SoftwareMaven 14y ago
The finished part of my house is completely wired with cat-5, but devices are becoming much less likely to even have an ethernet port, much less to be sitting around in a single place for it. Of the dozen devices in my room right now, six are able to be connected and, of those, four are.