OT: Home network

[Leonid Podolny]

Dotan Shavit wrote:
> On Monday 22 June 2009, Meir Michanie wrote:
>> Hi List,
>> I would like to know if anyone in the list can give me some advise on
>> network wiring in a house.
> My advise  is "Don't".
> Use wireless network.
> 

Exactly. Electromagnetic waves are neat, easily relocatable and easily 
upgradeable.
I use WiFi at home and am absolutely happy with it. It is fast enough 
for 99%  of all uses. When, once in a couple of months, I need to 
transfer more than few hundreds of MB, I just use a USB stick. Only once 
over the course of last couple of years, I needed to backup a whole HD, 
so I actually had to take a computer to another room and connect it 
back-to-back. Still easier than having the walls drilled.

But be sure to do your reading about Linux support for any NIC you are 
about to buy.