Need advice about building a new home LAN
We are in the process of building a new house and have gotten to the point where we have to decide to wire for ENET or go wireless only.
We have 2 Mac Pros, 3 MacBook Pros and several Gx Macs without wireless. The LAN will be used for internet and data, including clones and gigabyte size media files.
Would you wire for ENET or do you think wireless is sufficient?
TIA,
Bill
For residential work, as long as you do not string the cable through a return air plenum or duct, you are usually free to use the MUCH less expensive "riser" cable. For commercial work or through ducts, the much more expensive teflon-jacket "plenum" cable is required in most jurisdictions. Some commercial installers keep only "plenum" cable on their trucks. Using Plenum cable when not needed will easily double to cost of the cable.
If you want to save money, you could have them pull the cable but leave the raw ends in the boxes in the wall, and just put flat plates over them. Then you are not paying electrician/alarm guy time today to put the cable-ends on, but you have your expandability at a reasonable cost (or do-it-yourself) later. Same with cable-TV coax cable. You can still say "wired for high-speed Internet and cable-TV" when you go to sell.
1000Base-T uses all four pairs and a multi-level modulation technique, so the actual signaling interval is kept low enough for Cat 5 at a minimum. Cat 5e is only a tiny bit more money and has a little better performance. This article mentions cable requirements:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabit_Ethernet
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