Mark wrote:
On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:04:27 +0000, "www.GymRatZ.co.uk"
wrote:

On 16/11/2010 12:28, RoundSquare wrote:
I'm about to change the dining room floor and while at it thought I would
run some Cat5e to where the TV / PS3 lives back to the router / slave PC in
the hall cupboard.
Is there any advantage on using Cat6?
The rest of the house has been done in Cat5.
I'd hate to do it then find I really need Cat6 in a year or so.
Firstly I would suggest fibre more a realistic scenario than wire if
you're looking at the next 5+ years of "future-proofing", especially
when FTH becomes a reality.
And.... with so many millions of miles of Cat5e throught the worlds
offices I shouldn't wonder if technology will allow further mutations of
what speeds and frequencies can be passed along plain old twisted wires
at the same time to upgrade capacity without upgrading network, in the
same way telephone wires have had an almost never ending lease of life
through the decades. I remember when 14.4kbps from my US Robotic modem
was considered the highest speed posible.

I remember acoustic couplers.


I note that a telephone channel is a raw 64k bit rate, ergo no modem
could ever achieve more than that. Period.

I can happily stream Full-blown HDTV from PC to Xbox-360 while only
using a snippet of bandwidth.
My other guess is that digital media will speed up through improved
compression techniques and technology requiring LESS bandwidth than is
currently needed. Certainly in a domestic capacity at least.

I doubt it. The manufacturers need to keep selling you more **** so
they will make sure that you need more and more bandwidth so that you
must upgrade to their latest technology.


Oh, indeed.

Hover all that's pretty pointless worrying about as there is no life
beyond December 2012 anyway so worry about the now and don't waste time
worrying about the what-if?s

Is this the new date for the "end of the world" (tm)?

..I think its the Maya one.