Star Wired vs Wireless: Sometimes There's No Substitute for a Cable
Linked by JoanneRodgers on Thu 15th May 2008 23:02 UTC
Features, Office In a June 2003 Wired Magazine interview, Martha Stewart said, "Bill Gates' house, for example, is totally out of date now. He built it right before wireless happened. The big tunnels for all his wires - he doesn't need any of that stuff anymore." The article wasn't about networking, or even technology, but I was struck by that statement because it was echoed by several people when I was explaining that I was running many thousands of feet of cable in OSNews' "house of the future." "Is all that cable really necessary now that there's wireless everything?" people said. As much as I respect Martha Stewart's business and design acumen, neither she, nor those people who talked to me, know what they're talking about. When it comes to networking, there's no substitute for a wire, when a wire's available. -- This is the latest entry in our 2008 Article Contest.
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If I could lay fiber throughout the house
by tyrione on Thu 15th May 2008 23:33 UTC
tyrione
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2005-11-21

I would. I'll take a house designed to pull and replace older wire for new mediums any day of the week.

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Doc Pain Member since:
2006-10-08

I would. I'll take a house designed to pull and replace older wire for new mediums any day of the week.


Fibre would be interesting for inside usage, but your house will be connected to phone lines, TV cables and DSL cables made from copper anyway. Here in Germany, after 1990, fibre connections were put into the ground for some districts in my home town. Today, these regions suffer from not being able to get DSL connections because they do require a copper wire, or, which would be as expensive as a replacement of the fibre, a converter from / to fibre.

As far as I remember, the famous SGI computers (e. g. Octane) had optical connectors many years ago. The idea isn't that bad. And maybe optical connection cables could be made cheaper than those that involve metal...

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