Wireless – 0; Wired – 1
This afternoon I worked on one of the projects that I had earlier mentioned. I decided to abandon trying to get WDS (Wireless Distribution System) working between my office on the 2nd floor and the home theatre in the basement. Instead, I bought a 100 ft of Cat 5e cable and just ran the wiring from the outside of the house. In my office and in the basement I have Netgear GS105 gigabit switches, so the connectivity blows away any wireless network that I could’ve set up. It took about 3 hours or so to run the wire, tack it down, cut drywall, punch the wiring into the adapters, but I think I would have spent a lot longer trying to get WDS working correctly. So, what’s the net result of this wiring job? Well, now we can finally watch movies from our Instant Queue on Netflix via the XBox 360 on the plasma TV downstairs. Oh, that is, of course if I actually had time to watch TV.
