Home Theatre PC, do you have one? Here's mine...
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When my coworker had his house built, he had CAT 6 (gigabit capable) wired to every room and had a breakout ports in most rooms.
http://itls.saisd.net/podcasts/gats/gats_checklist/picture_2.jpg
The router for all of this stuff was in the basement to keep cool and be central to the house. He basically had a power box and a router box next to it.
http://itls.saisd.net/podcasts/gats/gats_checklist/picture_2.jpg
The router for all of this stuff was in the basement to keep cool and be central to the house. He basically had a power box and a router box next to it.
wires are shielded copper core. Need to cut them to hurt them.
Home deport will know, or should. But basically, if your putting a new ethernet line from your hub to your room, get these.
2 rj45 faceplates.
2 rj45 'keystones', which is basically a female rj45 outlet. takes less than a minute to terminate it.
however much length of Cat5 you need, +10-20 for spares.
and, of course, 2 cat 5 patch cables.
Of, and if you are making new outlets, you'll need a piece of metal that wraps around the hole you cut in the drywall for the wallplate. I forget the name, but they are common and cheap. Home depot has them too, and will definitely know what you are talking about.
That doesn't mean that WHS doesn't rock, sir.
How are you handing PC backups? All mine backup nightly and I don't have to lift a finger. I can do a bare metal restore from a plethora of dates over the last 2 months.
figured he had to have termed cat 5 before, but who knows. If the cable has always been run for him...
I told chim that and he doesn't trust it
What the hell is there to trust? I'm getting almost 100Mbit speeds. I dunno about you, but I NEVER got that over .11n.
No, I knew. But I know people in IT who are really good at their specialty, but don't know jack about the small details on the outside.
don't care about PC backups. I care about the data files I use, not the applications themselves. The data files are stored on our Drobo and that is self-maintaining.
If my machine dies, it is usually cleaner to start from scratch reinstalling only what I hvae found I need and leaving the residual bulk crap off. It might make sense to have an "image" of a machine with just OS loaded, but then again you are using drivers dated at the time of the backup, not the newest.
k. Then lose your machine. Thanks to WHS, I'll be back online in under 2 hours with the same drivers I was using yesterday. It rocks, I don't understand why you have to fight me on this.
How does MoCA work when you have cable internet connection already? What we would have to do is have a cable connection in the bedroom/server room that is connected to the modem, which is then connected to the router. Then there is a coax in the living room by the HTPC. How can you use MoCA to share that type of connection?
Cat 6 is White orange, orange, white green, blue, white blue, green, white brown, brown
I have to put rj45 ends on all the time.
rj11 you typically just use the blue and orange pairs
I have to put rj45 ends on all the time.
rj11 you typically just use the blue and orange pairs
k. Then lose your machine. Thanks to WHS, I'll be back online in under 2 hours with the same drivers I was using yesterday. It rocks, I don't understand why you have to fight me on this.
I didn't say it didn't rock. I just said I don't have a real good reason to use it.
I usually do a format of my machine once a year if not more often regardless. Our HTPC is like our local "cloud" for computing. If we didn't have an HTPC, I would be using WHS with the Drobo hooked to it and the transcoding Add-In on it to stream to our PS3 as our HTPC.
Until Sony destroys that functionality, too