On 16/11/10 17:40, Sunny Bard wrote:
David Robinson wrote:

I don't think any network cabling you could have conceived of
in 1990 would be in any way relevant today.

Actually, 10Mb Ethernet over cat3 cable was introduced in 1990 and the
standard for cat5 cable was published in 1991 which will still work
today with 10Mb, 100Mb or 1Gb Ethernet, and I can't see much pressure
for 10Gb or 40Gb Ethernet in most businesses yet, let alone houses.

I can - I can usefully utilise 50% of a gig link pushing media files
around (that's copying not streaming) *whilst* doing other stuff. My
802.11g WiFi can stream VCD quality media video at the expense of other
activity.

With HD this will get rapidly worse, especial as "media servers"
(prebuilt and the likes of MythTV) are becoming more popular.

I would certainly run Cat6a now, unless conduit is installed.

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Tim Watts