jbcg
join:2001-09-15
Milwaukee, WI
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Re: New home office setup. Please comment on feasability
Properly installed Cat 5e (preferably 350 mhz) will support gigabyte. Cat 6 really doesn't add much to that in a home office environment unless you want to go with Cat 6a (REALLY expensive and tough to work with). Still, it's hard to imagine what a home office user will ever need 10 gigabyte bandwidth for.
Killa's right that Cat 6 is thicker, which can create problems by itself. Plus the tightly wound conductors have to be terminated to preserve the twist as close to the IDC blades as possible and there's usually a heavier jacket and a stiff plastic insert that you have to deal with. Part of the reason some companies use Cat 6 is that it's tougher and survives ham-fisted installers better than Cat 5e.
More info on cable standards: »www.lanshack.com/cat5e-tutorial.aspx
Re: Saturating the signal from multiple waps . . . Possibly there's something I don't understand here, but two waps on the same band (even if they use different channels) are more likely to duke it out in competition than they are to use all the potential bandwidth--especially draft-n waps. Even in a tough environment like yours, you may be better off just running one carefully sited and properly configured (see smallnetbuilder.com) wap. If it were my installation I'd be picking the wap that works best with my laptops and either selling the other on eBay or keeping it as a spare. Keep it simple!
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wolfman2g1
join:2008-04-28
Brooklyn, NY
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3 edits | In agreement with what was said before but would like to add that the only real advantage to the second access point would be to segregate you work stuff from your home entertainment stuff but since you have the file server on the same switch it wouldn't make a difference unless you get a managed switch and divide it into two Vlans, does add some complexity to your set up but it will give you the best of both worlds. it's currently how i have my home office set up. yea having more than one access points broadcasting will actually cut your range down so placement is definitely important. my advice for running two or more is don't depend on the auto channel setting manually separate them i usually use channel 2, 4 or 9 since most access point use 1,6 or 11 so that should also help you if you have neighbors close by with their own wireless networks. |
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