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Ethernet - Existing Home



Now adays most electrical contractors are very well experianced in
pulling cat-5 through old house walls. 
Make sure they label it good and just buy the ends with the simple snap-on
pieces and do it yourself.
I can't tell you how many times I have done this for friends and my
apartments/house ;)
You can even buy those bridge blocks and wire with 2 of the wires that
aren't being used on the cat-5 you can take and have an extra phone line
in each room.
Mix that with a nice 100mb switch off a linux box doin NAT(and a big samba
40gig export) off a cable modem and you have a sweet little network going
on(my current network in my 140 yo house). I also recommend getting an 
Apple airport box and a few of those lucent wav/LAN cards to make it
wireless -good stuff. 


Kris Loranger
kris at kancer.978.org
IRC:undernet,#978,Kancer AIM:KancerKris
"If you're going to sell out, sell out ethically" -Moby

On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Bryan Strawser wrote:

> 
> I recently purchased a home in Taunton and will be relocating there in March
> from Quincy - I'd like to have this house (15 years old) wired for ethernet
> in each room and a couple other needs that I have..
> 
> Any recommendations on a contractor/firm to do this work?  I could do it
> myself but simply don't have the time to do so..
> 
> Thanks,
> Bryan
> 
> 
> ---
> Bryan Strawser, feanor at gondolin.org, http://feanor.gondolin.org
> Gondolin Technologies - http://www.gondolin.org
> 
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