[ale] Home fiber network?

[William Fragakis]

I was going to say it's difficult even to plan for a 10 year horizon.
About 10 years ago, the telcos were tripping over themselves trying to
buy copper to the home. Now, most people use a cell phone, a lot of us
get internet over cable and who knows what things like WiMax will do? I
haven't used my copper in 3 years.

Just think how cheap your pipe-dream server will be in 10 yrs? (Or
compare a Core i7 945 with a PIII 500).

Good luck and have fun.

William

On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 18:01 -0400, Scott Denlinger wrote:
> Thanks everyone, for your input. My primary application for my wired network
> will be for streaming video and audio, for my pipe-dream media server, and I'm especially concerned that I'll
> have plenty of capacity to stream any HD video formats which may come down the
> road in the next several years. If 10GBase-T can handle that, I suspect that
> cat. 6a copper will ultimately be cheaper, at least in a 10-year window. The
> consensus does seem to be running copper instead of fiber.
> 
> Pulling will not be an issue. It's a single story bungalow, and I have a great
> crawl space to work in with access to all areas of the house. And, as Jim Kinney
> points out, cat. 6 cable will make a great pulling cord down the road. :)
> 
> Thanks again for all your collective wisdom. As for bandwidth to the house, Jim,
> you're better off in the ATL area, trust me. You don't wanna know ...
> 
> Scott Denlinger
> 
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