On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Mike Kallies wrote:

I was thinking of cat3 phonewire, 2 sets of cat6 data (material costs

I really wouldn't bother with cat3. Run another length of cat6. I did this in my home in Australia (well, cat5a which was the highest category at the time) and have the flexibility to patch phone or data around the house using the cat6. My other suggestion is to consider getting a professional in this area. They'll take care of interference issues[1], etc, and really aren't expensive. [1] Well, the good ones will, anyway :)

Wireless is not going to be a perfect replacement for this stuff for a long time, today it is slow and suffers from privacy issues. Tomorrow

I see the main problem as speed. The security is easy enough to overcome through the use of IPSec, which would itself make an interesting project :)

it will be faster, but whether or not it will cater to impractical geeks

But "wired" connects will be faster still. 10GBit ethernet is just around the corner.

remains to be seen. Besides, it's fun to hack around with this stuff.

Definitely.

Another reason I want to do this however is because it is an old house... I'm going to be doing some electrical & plumbing upgrades, and afterwards, I'm going to be using some blow-in insulation for energy efficiency and soundproofing... which will make future wire installations an order of magnitude more difficult.

Ok, maybe you already have the skills to do the job professionally yourself :) Rob -- Robert Brockway B.Sc. email: robert-5LEc/6Zm6xCUd8a0hrldnti2O/JbrIOy at public.gmane.org, zzbrock at uqconnect.net Linux counter project ID #16440 (http://counter.li.org) "The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens" -Baha'u'llah -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml