Comments on: Recabling house

By: Jon A

Jon A — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 15:55:25 +0000

On the topic of consolidating all your storage together have you considered the Linksys NSLU2 storage link.

Its 50 quid, silent and the size of a paperback book. You plug in a USB/firewire hard drive (or a normal drive in a cheap chassis) or even a memory stick. and hey presto it becomes network attached storage.

The neat thing is though that the NSLU2 is effectively a solid state linux box, so you can also hack it to run samba/web server/mailserver/itunes server etc…

By: niles

niles — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 12:23:02 +0000

Only every time you transfer a copy of a file from one machine to another… Certainly wouldn’t want to run a P2P program over wireless. Encryption breaking problems come up too.

By: neil h.

neil h. — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 19:22:34 +0000

Cable is 100Mbs, wireless is 54Mbs so not a huge deal of difference – it’s easily fast enough to stream video over with no noticable lag, even when the connection speed drops at extreme range. You might notice it in raw throughput when copying large amounts of data, but how often do you do that for it to be an issue?

By: niles

niles — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 11:59:27 +0000

I’m sure wireless is slower than cabled, particularly when you’re moving large AVI files around? It’s fine for casual browsing, but if you have the chance for cable, it’s no match.

By: neil h.

neil h. — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 12:00:24 +0000

Hi Niles!

I’ve only just realised you’ve linked to me … doh!

As for wiring, why not just go for wireless – should be easily enough to stream media over, although I suppose it might be stretching it to the attic unless you have some sort of bridge/router to link upstairs and downstairs. We’ve got a linksys 54WAG which supports 4 pcs and 2 pdas by wifi and has four ethernet ports for the downstairs pc and the xbox.

neil h.