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I think I'm going to switch to cables...

After 5+ years of using 802.11, I think I'm going to run cable through the house. I want to to do it the right way, by having ethernet jacks in all the main rooms. Some rooms will even have two jacks at different locations.

While 802.11a has served me very well over the years, the reason for the switch is that I see a desire down the road to be able to simultaneously network multiple high definition video traffics. I can get one solid HD feed over 802.11a now, but it saturates the network. 802.11n? Chasing draft-n/pre-n right now doesn't guarantee it will work with formal 802.11n down the road. Even after 802.11n is passed, it is just a new wireless standard that will superceded by something else. That something else will be superceded again by something else....

So,. I think my WLAN is going to become a LAN. I'll keep one WAP running for the open CP and another for little piddly things...

Always did think wireless as just a supplement and just a temporary thing for a LAN until running cables one day. Ten years ago, thought those cables would be fiber optic by now...