{"id":20,"date":"2007-01-17T14:14:23","date_gmt":"2007-01-17T20:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d2.degen.net\/?p=32"},"modified":"2007-01-17T14:14:23","modified_gmt":"2007-01-17T20:14:23","slug":"is-wireless-always-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":"Is Wireless always better?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Calibri\" size=\"3\">So after years of procrastinating, I got off my rear and set out to hardwire my home network. When I had the house built a few years ago, I specified that Cat 5 needed to be run from my office to all rooms, \u00c2\u00a0the difficult part of a desecrate wired network installation, but leaving the finish work of terminating it all to me.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Calibri\" size=\"3\">Since I had a functional Wi-Fi network that I moved from the last residence, I did not set aside the time to wire each room. Till this past weekend. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Calibri\" size=\"3\">With complaints from the wife (on wireless) about slow photo editing performance and the hope of soon integrating an Xbox 360 as a media extender for Windows Vista, I tackled those two rooms first, Lynnette\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office and the Media Room.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Calibri\" size=\"3\">A trip to Fry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s and a couple hours later &#8211; we were enjoying the goodness of switched Gigabit to areas that previously struggled do to distance from the Access Point.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Calibri\" size=\"3\">All this to say, if you have the opportunity to run a connected LAN at your home, take the time to deploy it. Yes Wi-Fi is easy and inexpensive, but with video and other high bandwidth apps edging closer to main-stream wireless just can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t compete with a solid physical connection.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So after years of procrastinating, I got off my rear and set out to hardwire my home network. When I had the house built a few years ago, I specified that Cat 5 needed to be run from my office to all rooms, \u00c2\u00a0the difficult part of a desecrate wired network installation, but leaving the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}