Poll: share your home network setup?

[jimmyhaha]

just curious if anyone here hard wire their home/apt ?

btw, what networking option u are using ?

for those using router with 2 storey home or large apt, how do u run and hide the ugly cat5 cable ?

btw, I heard that cat5 has limit of 100m (330ft) and if u reach the limit.. does it mean that u need a repeater, switch, hub or whatever ?

 

[dOrKuS]

I hard-wired my Apt. right when I moved in and have four PC's hooked up as of now.
Hiding the ugly cables isn't all that easy, since I'm renting, I wasn't gonna go through the walls, so I just got cable runners and nailed the cable into the floor board and painted over it. BTW, I painted the Apt after moving in, I didn't just paint all the wiring. Cheap fix but hey, it helped a ton.

 

[Squisher]

1 eight port router, 4 people, 5 computers, 8 places to plug in scattered throughout the house.


Ahh, the wonderful world of pulling cable....romex, telephone, cable tv, cat5.

 

[amdskip]

You can fish the wires through the walls, believe me, there is always a way to get them through. I recently did mine through an attic down to the first floor so I could have cable internet in my room It was a big job but with some patience and a little time drilling experimental holes and some yarn with a bolt on the end, it can be done!

 

[VirusDub]

I've got a basic router setup with one network connection into my room and two into our garage (it's better for gaming in there).

 

[MrHappyMonkey]

I have a 5 person network shared over a router in a 2-story home. We eneded up running the lines through the wall and down through a wall at the end of the attick (it's a garage). I used a white conduit where I needed the cable shown outside (only place that needed to be outside the wall was the garage). I was lazy and didn't get "real" jacks for the wall, just a wire sticking out of a coaxile cable tv plate.

We will probably be going wireless since we need to move a computer to a room where we don't have access to through the attic.

 

[DanFungus]

Hardware Router (linksys)

 

[Ameesh]

We have a router, 3 switches, 2 wireless hubs, 2 files servers a domain server, a vpn/radius server, and a web/ftp server

 

[Ameesh]

oh we have 3 stories in the house and we ran the wire inside this piping we got from Home Depot

 

[Evadman]

If you really want to know....

Subscriber

Non-Subscriber

Yes, I am insane. This SETI bug is attacking me!

 

[tops2]

connected 2 computer
just have wires running around the house
very ugly!

 

[Mucman]

-Cable Internet
-24 port patch panel
-486 50 running Freesco
-8 port DLink Switch
-P150 running Debian (SAMBA,DNSCACHE,PURE-FTP)
-Celeron II 700 work station
-PIII 450 work station
-8 port 3com hub
-P200 BeOS box for TV viewing
-P60 running tcpdump to a 14" monitor 24/7
-P1050 FreeBSD workstation

All wire through into wall plates from drops I've done from the attic.

 

[QTPie]

Hardware router for me.

 

[Derango]

Ok...I've got a linksys router (4 port, non ethernet) acting as a gateway to my cable modem. From there, all of the computer except for the ones in my room have a direct connecton to the router. The ones in my room are going through a 5 port workgroup switch, also a linksys.

 

[ttn1]

Cable Modem
Silent(no moving parts)180Mhz computer running Linux Router Project as a router
2 - 5 port Linksys Switches
Server 1 - web/mail/DNS/file server also running RIMPS to serve MP3s
Server 2 - file/LTSP/mp3 server

All of above is in closet of computer room.

2 - workstations
2 - LTSP development machines
1 - Iopener for mp3s and surfing / car use as mp3/GPS system

All above in upstairs computer room

1 - workstation downstairs

All wiring is currently run under carpet between the wall and the tack strip. I've had too many other things to do to get it in wall.

I was going to pick number 3, but I didn't want to insult my router by calling it "similar" to ICS. It's been running non-stop for 2 years, with one week downtime for moving to new house.

 

[Pliablemoose]

Wireless 1st generation Intel Anypoint, only 1.6MPS xfer but I'm not crunching & transferring corporate spreadsheets either, mostly for printer/internet sharing...

 

[Kadarin]

I've got a 4-port hardware router (er, NAT box) to which 3 pc's are connected: My AthlonXP Win2K box, my PII Linux box, and my g/f's Win98 PII. Occasionally, we'll connect her laptop.. This allows us to access the DSL connection in our home office.

 

[DnetMHZ]

Cable Internet
Linksys Cable/DSL router
2 - 8 port Linksys switches
Intel Pro 5000 Wireless AP 802.11a 54Mbit
8 desktop PCs and 1 Notebook

All desktops are on the wired network, Laptop uses the Wireless.

 

[FelixDeCat]

I have about 5,000 computers hooked up to my small home network and 1 linksys dsl router.

 

[DnetMHZ]

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