On Mon, 17 Jul 2017 21:01:15 -0500, Terry Coombs
wrote:

On 7/17/2017 8:44 PM, Seymore4Head wrote:
On Mon, 17 Jul 2017 19:19:57 -0500, Terry Coombs
wrote:

It turns out that the roll of "speaker wire" my friend gave me when
cleaning out his shop is actually cat5e ehtenet cabling . So , I'm faced
with a decision - I have 400 feet of this stuff , which is plenty enough
to wire my whole house for internet connections . On the other hand ,
wireless is much cleaner and easier to move computers around if we
change the layout of our furnishings . Or maybe a combination , since
some comps already have a wireless card and some don't - and the one out
in the shop has a card but signal strength is iffy at times . Not much
worry here about getting hacked , a stranger down here in The Holler
would be questioned - and the hacker would have to be in my driveway to
get any kind of signal at all so ...

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Snag
For me wireless is around 15Mbs Wired is 60Mbs. It depends on how
fast your provider is.

My wired connections are 100 Mb/s , wireless are 54 (15 year old
laptop) and 130 Mb/s plus . Speed is a moot point except for intranet
transfers , my ISP can only supply a max here - 12 miles from town - of
6 Mb/sec . Reliability is the main thing I need ...

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Snag

Newer ethernet adapters run at 1gb. It makes file transfers go a lot
faster.