[LINK] Wi-Fi

[David Goldstein]

What do you mean "if BigPond cable could just deliver a decent speed" Phil? I 
get download speeds of up to 150mb/s with BigPond cable according to Speednet.



----- Original Message ----
> From: Philip Argy <pargy at argystar.com>
> To: Link list <link at anu.edu.au>
> Sent: Tue, 26 April, 2011 5:16:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [LINK] Wi-Fi
> 
> 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
> To: 'Link list'
> 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. 
>
> 
> 
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