Linked by David Adams on Wed 21st Jan 2004 22:52 UTC
If all goes well, this summer I'll be building a new house. I've owned a few houses before, some of them built in the 1920s and 30s, and full of all the charm and quirks of an old house, and a couple that were pretty new, with the lack of craftsmanship and imagination that's typical in most new construction in the USA today. But this time I'm building a custom home, just to my specifications, so I can have whatever features I want, limited only by my imagination (and budget). I'd like to integrate some home automation features into the house, and include wiring for future expansion. 
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4x DVD-R buringing needs 5.5 MB/s, 8x 11 MB/s, which is beyond 100 Mbps either net.
USB 2.0 hard drive has a peak data rate of 34 MB/s, 1394 will do 40 MB/s, both are beyond the 7 MB/s figure for a 100Mbps network.
How fast is a wireless link ? 54 Mbps wireless link is probably only 50% faster that a 11 Mbps link - so maybe around 1 MB/s, which is not enough for 16x CD-R burning.