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Should we even bring up the different types of coax cable? Standard vs Quad Shield... Copper-clad aluminum vs pure copper are options that impact the performance of the cable. Most contractors I've supplied don't go for quad shielded pure copper, but those that do swear it's worth the money and wouldn't buy the cheaper stuff when that was all we had that particular day. They'd wait for me to bring in the good stuff.
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If we're going to get in the weeds of category cabling, I'd demand the contractor not use "EZ-RJ45" connectors. They're quicker for the installer, but these connectors are known to introduce crosstalk across the conductors. This will cause intermittent problems that can make you and your installer nuts trying to troubleshoot issues. I've had contractors have to literally put new traditional RJ45 connectors on an entire job because they were losing their shirt in troubleshooting and dealing with upset homeowner.
https://www.platinumtools.com/produc...45-connectors/
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A quick web search brought up this topic on the Control4 forum, but I'm confident you can find others. https://www.c4forums.com/topic/19045-ez-rj45/
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regardless of what you use, not having cable and internet wiring in your house is going to be a no go for a lot of future prospective buyers when you go to sell.
at a minimum get the main rooms wired up and preferably bedrooms/office.
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I had this discussion with a friend and his wife when they were building a new home, convincing them that a wired home network has many benefits. They initially thought WiFi was the answer for everything.
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I had a bunch of headaches using the traditional RJ45 jacks where inevitably one wire isn't seated all the way into the end of the channel of the jack and I would have to redo it. It's not a problem if you don't care about keeping wiring twists as close to the RJ45 connector. But I'm anal about that. |
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I have to say the majority of the time I spend is on my laptop connected wirelessly. But as you are aware and have been discussed ad nauseum on this thread, wired still has its place. |
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You know how frustrating it is to have porn buffer mid stroke?
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I certainly don't disagree. My use case to them was for other network items other than their phones, laptops, and streaming video. They eventually want to set up security cameras, so I had to explain why wired PoE is the way to go for camera use. Their new house is also pretty large, so I also informed them multiple WiFi access points may be necessary. Once they understood the benefits of having some things wired, they figured it also made sense to have drops where TVs and game consoles may be.
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And how am I going to make Whack off Wednesday epic if I have to stop mid stroke because of buffering......
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Shiiit. I'm old enough to remember people trying to make out what was on a scrambled Cinemax channel.
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On an entirely separate note... The pro surveillance camera guys I've done business with almost universally avoid IP camera systems. They've poo-poo'd them as something only rookies chose. Not my area of expertise so I'm just sharing what professional installers and manufacturers have shared with me.
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An uber-geek friend of mine had a home-built satellite de-scrambler back in the '90s. It ran on an old PC. He'd have the screen pointed towards the viewing area so we could see the console output, which was a blizzard of text. We usually made him turn it off, it was so distracting. That's some Grade-A geekery right there.
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Some of the activities I do which is more about my IT hobby and work is moving around large ISO and OVA/OVF files building out new virtual machines in my vSphere cluster. Being able move around/load those files with 10Gig connectivity saves tons of time. In addition to that, my MD3800i iSCSI array requires 10Gig connectivity. I haven't leveraged this but will when I get my 2 Cisco UCS240 servers up and running is FCoE...more specifically leveraging the features of DCB (data center bridging). Also, I have a few connected devices running on my PoE access switch where that traffic gets distributed to other parts of my network. If I ran that through even bonded 1Gig links, performance would be worse than running over a single 10Gig link. I have 10Gig running between this switch and the top of rack switch in my server rack. Truth be told, the server I run 24/7 is my physical host for about 24 VMs of which about 8 VMs run 24/7. Because of the traffic going in and out of these VMs, the server is 40Gig attached to the top of rack switch. |
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Having run my Hikvision camera system for years, I don't see their issue with it. I've actually been in a operations center for a to be unnamed Federal Agency and was horrified by the picture quality of their camera system (closed circuit based) which didn't even come close to the quality of my system. |
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