wiring question

[rtgwbmsr]

Yes, even easier with open shares.

Been there. Pissed off the computer security guys (it took them months to figure it out.)

[voidmain]

Right now, wireless is incredibly insecure. I was in a security conference that just happened to be right next door to a building we had some Cisco wireless units in. The guy brought up his laptop with wireless card, started up his sniffer and we started seeing some of our packets flying by. It was a little embarrassing. That's the "real" reason I am not interested in wireless. I have Cat5 connections all over my house (except the bathroom) so it's not that big of a deal for me.

[rtgwbmsr]

The gigabit cards I bought were so cheap. Now if only the switches would come down in price.  :mad:

[voidmain]

Are you running gigabit over copper?  I've run a lot of fibre gigabit but the gigabit over copper wasn't available yet. Those fibre switches are very expensive (and fibre is certainly not the cheapest/easiest to run).

[rtgwbmsr]

Good 'ol Cu:

Grrr...f*cking chem!!!  :mad:  
Oh well, it's a good way to study

[voidmain]

What cards are you running and what switches are you looking at?

[rtgwbmsr]

The Cards:
Information:
http://www.netgear.com/products/prod_details.asp?prodID=118&view=
Newegg (shopping):
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.asp?submit=manufactory&manufactory=1233&catalog=27&DEPA=0&sortby=14&order=1

The switch:
http://www.netgear.com/products/prod_details.asp?prodID=141&view=
$100 per port. Way out of my price range!

[ October 23, 2002: Message edited by: The_Muffin_Man/B0b ]

[voidmain]

Looks like the cards perform well under Linux:
http://www.cs.uni.edu/~gray/gig-over-copper/gig-over-copper.html#NetGear%20GA302T|outline

I can't believe the price on those cards. Boy times are a changin'. The switch is actually *extremely* cheap compared to what I had to pay for 3com fibre switches. I believe at the time I bought them (probably 3 or 4 years ago) I paid around $10,000US per switch and if I recall they each had 8 fibre ports. But the prices will fall. Have you looked into any other card/switch combos?

[ October 23, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

[rtgwbmsr]

I haven't looked around as much as I would have liked to. I have a chem test tomorrow (READ: NEED SLEEP), so I'll talk to you later.

[voidmain]

Here's a picture of my wireing rack in my basement:



See, not having wireless is not so bad.