[LINK] Wi-Fi

[Darrell Burkey]

On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 17:16, Philip Argy wrote:
> 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!

When I built my house 10 years ago we actually added a clause to the
builder's contract requiring him to give me notice of when I could come
in to run network cabling and giving me a minimum of 48 hrs to do so.

I'm a registered cabler and it only took my son and I a few hours to
cable the entire house. When the walls are open it's pretty quick. Best
thing I ever did and now the entire house including the garage has data
points.

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Darrell Burkey
UNIX Systems Administrator
College of Asia & the Pacific
Australian National University
Ph: (02) 6125 4160