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    Inexpensive Cat6 Tester/Continuity Verifiererer

    no you have wire mapped them.. as Tim said above to "verfie" the cables it uses propper tests to ensure the twist rates are all kept, wire lengths are close if not the same
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    Help.. NAS with fax?

    no such device excists... not a big market anyways...
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    Router settings for gaming

    not really unless it does QOS and you want your pc tpo have priority over the conenction above other users... tho I have a QOS modem router and have never had to worry about this..
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    connecting 2 homes

    the only real way you could do this is via wifi... lots of decent kits out there...
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    Running Cat6 from the basement question

    wrap the cat6 in a velcro tie and then attach that to the zip tie.... not good for the cat6 to be crushed by the zip tie
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    streaming movies

    my wired network / HTPC struggles on some movies....
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    LAN Party How To - Part 1: Planning and Power

    cool artical thiggins. I organise the Power gear for a couple of big events here in Aus. Valhalla and Reloaded At Valhallla we usually run 10 Pc's per 240v 10Amp curcuit. attached is a photo of the Distro boxes Our usual events have up to 250 machines including admins and...
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    RJ-45 Good Enough or Must it Say Cat5e?

    sure in a perfect world.... tho they should rellay jsut change all their documentation to state cat5e...
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    RJ-45 Good Enough or Must it Say Cat5e?

    RJ-45 is the generic term used for both the 8P8C (8Pins, 8Connected)* sockets and plugs used in networking, Cat5e is the type of cabling used, it is the enhanced version of Cat5... also alot of people shorten Cat5e to cat5 where there is a clear differnce to each cable type. cat5e will...
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    Home Networking/Switch Questions

    bare minimum for bedroom cabling is 2 sockets per room maximum of 4, for a Home office minimum is 6 and a maximum of 16, 2 walls with 4 and one wall with 8 sockets on them, behind any Main tv/ HT set up I would go at minimum 4 at most 8. but hey that is just me. as for switches... D-link
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    Newbie needs some help!!

    yeah uit blows having to be that guy to come in and reterminate alot of cables.... tho handing them the invoice afterwards always makes me feel better. I feel even better if it is someones DIY attempt..
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    16-port gigabit with POE and fanless

    true only on gear that has seperate power outlets for things but most use the outer pairs which then brings it down to a 100mb connection. and for domestic gear this is fine but commercail gear would offer more choices.... also to the op 24 ports for most vendors is the smallest they would...
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    Newbie needs some help!!

    yes you are being naive to think that you will get file transfer speeds that fast from "domestic" gear, Jumbo frames is a comercial/ dc concept for when you are truely transfering alot fo data around on a dayily/ hourly basis... bt you still dont see the whole picture you may have lots of ram...
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    Newbie needs some help!!

    with your new updated transfer speed that is about right for that set up.... Gbit is the network connection speed which gives you enough "bandwidth" to do thse kinds of speeds... it has always been fact tht you will never get full Gb speeds unles you are on Fibre or have 15K rpm hd/ ssd's. even...
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    16-port gigabit with POE and fanless

    umm that is because it uses the other 2 pairs to send the power down the cable.......
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    Newbie needs some help!!

    comes down to Hard drives read / write speeds, MB bus speeds, ram size and lots of other varibles... also disable any media players/ scanners while transfering
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    Home Office Network / Switch / VOIP / Cat5e vs Cat6a Help Request

    just any premade fibre "patch" cables
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    Home Office Network / Switch / VOIP / Cat5e vs Cat6a Help Request

    if you have Cat5e inth walls why do you want/need Cat6a patch cables ?? Cat5e is fine for GiGE..... and unless you upgrade the cables in the wall there is no point having Cat6a patch cables. also no point to cat6a outside of comercial installs that Require 10GiGE copper.... and to that point...
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    Wired router for 40 to 50 clients

    so you are using the schools internet connection to do this ??? if so it should be fine to plug the switch into a wall socket then out to the the pc's.... I'm guesisng you have asked or you are the schools IT person and have full permision to do this ?? other wise they may have alot of the...
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    Wired router for 40 to 50 clients

    you won't get a router with that mmany outlets to try a smoothwall with managed/ unmanegd switches or similar... routers are fine for small set ups to allow dhcp to be proppergated but for so many people I would use a smoothwall client box then your switches
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