[LINK] Wi-Fi

[Philip Argy]

I have 75 Cat 6 LAN outlets in my home, including in the boatshed and the garage!  All were done during major renovations about 5 years ago when the whole house was being re-wired/re-plumbed, so the extra cost of running a km or so of blue Cat 6 cable was negligible.  And with my gigabit Ethernet switch I can have up to 16 outlets in concurrent use, which is enough to cover all of our PC/printer/NAS/PVR needs for the time being without having to enable the wireless gateway, which I enable for temporary purposes as needed (with hard coded MAC addresses for our own laptops or) for guests and then disable again (and on the odd occasion I enable it for guests I use a long WPA-PSK passphrase which I key in and don't allow them to see or save), and suppress the SSID.  Maybe obsessive but I'm not a believer in trusted systems - only trustworthy systems!

Now if BigPond cable could just deliver a decent speed ...

Philip

-----Original Message-----
From: link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au [mailto:link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of Ash Nallawalla
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 4:28 PM
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Subject: Re: [LINK] Wi-Fi

> From: Fernando Cassia
> Sent: Tuesday, 26 April 2011 15:25

> I wonder: Why is cabling with cat5e ethernet so difficult for 
> everyone? you´re building "infrastructure" for your home, like power 
> outlets... I have 5 ports per room, so wherever I´m sitting I have an ethernet port less than 2m away.