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Deathwing_sl said:
Why cat6 instead of cat5e?
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Cause There's a VERY small difference between the two.

$2~ more on a 50 ft cable
$0.75~ more on a 10 ft cable

Not really a question imo - then again there's prolly no difference but whatever, yolo.

I didn't actually wire mine "properly" per-se but I can remove mine with minor effort if I ever need to.
 
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Deathwing_sl said:
Hmmm, looking at the price difference between cat5e and cat6, I'm not sure why I didn't just buy a box of bulk cat6 instead. I swear it was more than just an extra $25 per 1kft. Oh well, going to be fun rerunning this shit when 10GbE becomes necessary. Or maybe the next owner can deal with it, just like I dealt with removing the previous owner's retarded coax.
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Pretty sure Cat5e can push 10Gb over much shorter distances, but I have no idea why it would ever be needed in a household setting.
 
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It will, at some point, hopefully. I mean, my nas can already saturate a 1GbE connection, so technically there's already a usage scenario for 10GbE, just not practical usage in the home.
 
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Deathwing_sl said:
It will, at some point, hopefully. I mean, my nas can already saturate a 1GbE connection, so technically there's already a usage scenario for 10GbE, just not practical usage in the home.
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I guess it depends on your definition of saturating a connection. I mean if you're streaming a movie or copying a shitload of files the device is going to use the maximum available bandwidth until the job is done. I'm pretty sure will be deceased by the time 10Gb is seeing household use. I've personally ran Equallogic SANs with 50 virtual machines, SQL DB's, and File services on four active GB ports and still had a ton of room to add more before bandwidth became the issue.
 
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You'll see 10Gb on consumer grade products before the end of the decade. You'll be surprised how much everyday bandwidth requirements are going to skyrock as 4k gets wider and wider adoption.

Shit, we have maintenance coming soon add a 2nd 10Gb card to most of our nodes cause our storage links are getting rocked.
 
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Ronne_sl said:
You'll see 10Gb on consumer grade products before the end of the decade. You'll be surprised how much everyday bandwidth requirements are going to skyrock as 4k gets wider and wider adoption.

Shit, we have maintenance coming soon add a 2nd 10Gb card to most of our nodes cause our storage links are getting rocked.
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You can easily stream 4k content over a gigabit network right now. Any improvements to home based networking are going to continue to come in the form of wireless improvements. 99% of homes don't have Ethernet cabling at all, and 99% of users get their content via Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, or on a disc of some sort, not from a NAS with ripped 4k videos over their LAN. Hell I'd be curious to see how many people are still using routers with non-gigabit ports.
 
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jeydax_sl said:
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Cause There's a VERY small difference between the two.

$2~ more on a 50 ft cable
$0.75~ more on a 10 ft cable

Not really a question imo - then again there's prolly no difference but whatever, yolo.

I didn't actually wire mine "properly" per-se but I can remove mine with minor effort if I ever need to.
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Yeah at work I have been ordering cat5 for replacement cables because i am sure the buildings will be replaced before we go to a 10gb standard. We would have to replace all the switch infrastructure and every phone we have. We do have dedicated 10gb for our VM clusters.
 
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Ortega_sl said:
You can easily stream 4k content over a gigabit network right now. Any improvements to home based networking are going to continue to come in the form of wireless improvements. 99% of homes don't have Ethernet cabling at all, and 99% of users get their content via Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, or on a disc of some sort, not from a NAS with ripped 4k videos over their LAN. Hell I'd be curious to see how many people are still using routers with non-gigabit ports.
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I'm interested to see if li fi can hit the market in the next few years, read some pretty good results not to long ago.
 
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Download Microsoft Garage Mouse without Borders from Official Microsoft Download Center

A few registry tweaks and a static route later, I slam my work PC into my dock, turn it on, and before it even gets past the login prompt, my home PC can seemlessly take command of it just like it was part of my own desktop, even when it's logged into the VPN. My mouse travels from one screen to the other, and my keyboard follows with it, and I can use both machines almost like a single desktop, except you can't actually move program windows from one to the other of course. It's not like Remote Desktop, the video isn't being streamed to my PC, the video is going directly from my dock to the monitor and only my keyboard and mouse inputs are going to the client machine.

It's kinda like a software based KVM switch except way cooler. It switches automatically once your mouse crosses the edge of the screen.
 
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Mist_sl said:
This is free, and has a lot of options. Will that work if the client machine is tunneled into a corporate VPN? Will it work if the machine is locked? Will it work if the machine hasn't even logged into Windows yet?
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just tried to install this and the two computers failed to connect. thanks for nothing bitch.
 
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come by my place and help me troubleshoot. i just put in a new keg of two hearted ale.
 
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The newRouterOS Cloud Hosted Router. I got ~15% lower cpu load from it despite the fucking awful name.

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Mist_sl said:
Download Microsoft Garage Mouse without Borders from Official Microsoft Download Center

A few registry tweaks and a static route later, I slam my work PC into my dock, turn it on, and before it even gets past the login prompt, my home PC can seemlessly take command of it just like it was part of my own desktop, even when it's logged into the VPN. My mouse travels from one screen to the other, and my keyboard follows with it, and I can use both machines almost like a single desktop, except you can't actually move program windows from one to the other of course. It's not like Remote Desktop, the video isn't being streamed to my PC, the video is going directly from my dock to the monitor and only my keyboard and mouse inputs are going to the client machine.

It's kinda like a software based KVM switch except way cooler. It switches automatically once your mouse crosses the edge of the screen.
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Been doing this for years with InputDirector. Works fine with VPN. No registry tweaks required.
 
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jeydax_sl said:
Been doing this for years with InputDirector. Works fine with VPN. No registry tweaks required.
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The registry tweaks were to make the company laptop log onto my wireless before the login screen, so I don't even have to type my password in from the laptop itself.
 
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Wired desktop doing mundane things like playing a Youtube video seems to increase latency to near-unusable levels on wifi (wife lags in WoW, living room dvr unable to see/stream from bedroom). Signs a router is going bad or am i looking for an excuse to buy something new?

Edit: snagged a Linksys EA6900 (AC1900) tonight. Their Smart Wifi portal stuff is pretty snazzy.
 
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My tv cable and cat 5 house wiring is at the outside corner of my garage. The house is hard wired from every room to there, so I put the modem there and hooked my router in a bedroom up so the router would be in a kind of central location. Is there any way to retain the possibility of the wired connection to a router in the garage and have my wifi router be on a leg of that so it'll have the benefit of a central location?
 
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