[olug] [OT] Buying Cat5 cable locally...best price?

[Obi-Wan]

> And everyone that I've talked to about this has questioned why I even ran
> cable in the first place.  The average homeowner (present list company
> excluded) seem to be just fine with the 802.11b/g/n solutions.

<sigh>  I suppose most people don't move stuff around between computers
inside their own house, do they?

> Nope, it'll be the next homeowners problem then. :)
> At least I was nice and ran a 1.5" PVC pipe up a central wall from the
> basement to the attic.  Re-pulling the cable will be much easier for them.

I'm designing a new house now, in which I plan to grow old & die.
Future-proofing is everything, which is why I intend to run two
large (4" preferred) PVC conduits from basement to attic in opposite
corners of the house.  It'll have at least two cat6 runs to every
room, just in case.

I'm tired of my current practice of trotting down to the basement
with the laptop every time I want to run a backup to my central
server, just because doing so over the air takes 10x as long.

And then there's the high def media / DLNA servers that I'll probably
have before long...

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