[ale] Home fiber network?

[Jim Kinney]

Um. Yeah. Re-transmit HDTV over wireless. </sarcasm>

Wireless _is_ less than wired. But you still need at least _one_ wire
to start out the wireless setup.

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Greg Freemyer<greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm planning on building a new house.  My thought is wireless and repeaters.
>
> They can always be upgraded as speeds increase, but 54gb/sec is pretty
> cost effective today I think.  Probably less than the cost of wiring,
> etc. even ignoring labor.
>
> If I were designing a new office for dozens of users, then I would
> definitely want hardwire lines.
>
> Greg
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Scott
> Denlinger<scott at scottdenlinger.com> wrote:
>> I have an old house which I'm remodeling, and I am considering running fiber
>> instead of cat. 6, since I think fiber won't become as obsolete as quickly as
>> cat. 6 will. Does this make any sense to consider? I've run cables before, and
>> could do the termination of copper myself, but would I be out of my league
>> trying to run fiber? I would have to bring someone in to terminate everything
>> and test it, but I'm reasonably confident I could design the network, and run
>> the fiber myself, so I'm sure I could save on a lot of the labor costs, even if
>> I need someone to terminate all the connections.
>>
>> Are there good Internet resources out there for RESIDENTIAL fiber networks? A
>> lot of what I've seen in my searching so far seems to involve commercial
>> installations.
>>
>> Another factor is location--I'm in Statesboro, and there's at least one guy here in town
>> who claims to be able to do fiber installations, but I haven't gotten into
>> specifics with him. I'm sure there are folks in Savannah who could come out and
>> do it pretty easily, especially if they didn't have to spend time running the
>> fiber themselves. I imagine if they're only terminating and hooking up onsite
>> equipment, it's a 1-day job at most.
>>
>> Thanks for any tips, insights or caveats.
>>
>> Scott Denlinger
>>
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