Re: Tell me if I've got this right.....(please)

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 07:33:57 GMT, MikeP <noyb@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

>In article <1137635930.455230.226590@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>blahbleh666@xxxxxxxxxxx says...
>> Hello... I would like to run a bit of Cat5 ethernet cable from an
>> access point downstairs to a terminal in a bedroom upstairs.
>
>Go wireless. I personally pulled hundreds of feet of Cat5 though
>my house. Most has been abandoned.
>
>Wireless is great.

when it works

>With a wireless laptop I can access the Internet
>from my living room, kitchen, back porch, study, bedroom, front
>yard, garage, BBQ pit, RV in the driveway. Move the desktop
>machines without pulling more CAT5.
>

Wireless is good for non-fixed installations (where you move the
computer frequently). For a home machine, wired is preferable (could
it be that you never used a wired connection?).

>Wireless more than adequate for use; reading news groups, browsing
>the web, most Internet video/audio, and fps games .....
>

and you never know when you'll want to transfer a few 1GB files
between computers.

>www.dslreports.com ... lots of good info to be found.
--
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to have for lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb
contesting the vote." - Benjamin Franklin
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