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Building A (Serious) Home Network From Scratch

Posted by timothy on from the bolts-in-the-floor dept.

Casey Lang-Vie writes "THG are running an article that outlines how to build a home network from scratch. I wish I'd read this before I attempted - now I have a few (ok, 8) unsightly holes in my wall." This is the type of network that encourages home ownership rather than rental.

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  1. Real men by pair-a-noyd · · Score: 5, Funny

    have 6 or 7 holes in every wall with in the house with blue wires hanging out of them.
    Wall plates? "We don need no steenkin wallplates!"

    Really now, why would anyone plan out a home network? That takes all the fun out ot it!
    I mean what's more fun than pulling wires at the last minute when you really have to have that wire.
    And then trying to untangle the whole thing when you have to trouble shoot it!

    Real men have huge tangled and matted nests of wires and they KNOW what every wire is!

    1. Re:Real men by xThinkx · · Score: 5, Funny

      Real men have huge tangled and matted nests of wires...

      Horseshit, REAL MEN mod the crap out of anything they can get a computer and/or accessory into, including the house, and they know how to run cable. Real men run the cable in an organized fashion with EL wire for cable management and UV reactive paint or insulation for added decoration.

      Some plexi and a 4' x 6' hole in the wall to reveal amazingly cool wiring job is a must. Top off with cold-cathodes (since you're in the wall you can run them directly from AC) and you're sure to have the coolest freakin wall decoration ever. Talk about increasing resale value! Any uber-geek or pothead would kill for the borg or trippy look respectively. If you really wanna go cool, mount your router in the window too, but only after you've replaced all the ugly yellow LEDs with blue ones and added UV-reactive fans instead of any factory ones.

      Mod the World!... Am I the only one who believes that any thing with a case can/should be modded?

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  2. Re:building a? by Zork+the+Almighty · · Score: 5, Funny

    How can they have an article about "ripping holes in your walls to deploy gigabit ethernet in the home" without a chapter on "convincing the wife" ? What combination of fighting, pleading, and nagging does Tom's Hardware reccomend ? Where are the benchmarks ? I demand to see a bar graph.

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  3. Don't make it too complicated by appleLaserWriter · · Score: 5, Funny

    Your home has phone lines, right?

    Go onto EBay and get some nice US Robotics Courrier HST modems, one for each room. Next, find some speedy 486DX-50 (not DX2-50) boxen, also one per room.

    As you add more and more 486 and HST modems, both your compute speed and comm throughput tends towards infinte.

    This is the beauty of the Home Beowulf Network!

    Ethernet is for wussies. Real Men (tm) do it at 16.8k.

  4. Let me tell you... by The+Panther! · · Score: 5, Funny

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  5. Re:building a? by Snoopy77 · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's all about the Point Management System (PMS). You endure awful movies, perform tasks around the house prior to being nagged to do it and do romantic thingys in order to score points. Points are rewarded depending on the level of commitment/endurance you demonstrated.

    For example, sitting through Titanic requires a high level of endurance and will score quite well. But if you are looking to earn enough points for a home network then you are going to have to attempt to sit through a Fried Green Tomatoes, Driving Miss Daisy Double. Even this won't get you close to earning enough points. Dishwashing, vacuuming and taking out the trash are good, but even better if you do it without being told. A romantic date to the movies is good, if dinner is thrown in even better. Dinner at Hooters is not good.

    And ofcourse, beware, points can be deducted. You must be on your best behavior. Unfortunately we cannot guarantee that any points will be retained for any period longer than a month.

    Good luck

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  6. Re:an article not worth reading by Snoopy77 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I made the mistake of reading this entire article. I recommend to all those who entertain the idea skip it.

    Damn it! The one time I decided to RTFA and it's a dud. I swear I'll never read an article again!

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    "She's a West Texas girl, just like me" - G.W Bush Iraqis
  7. Holes in wall by BinBoy · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wish I'd read this before I attempted - now I have a few (ok, 8) unsightly holes in my wall.

    Worst of all, it was a wireless network. *rimshot* Thank you. You've been a great crowd.

  8. What REAL Real Men Do by nzyank · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't fuck around. Need a hole? Use a sledgehammer. Fast, makes a nice, neat hole that's big enough for about 115 Cat5 cables. None of this sissy shit like wireless and threading little bitty cables through little bitty holes and fastening the ends on only AFTER threading the cables.

    Worried about the landlord? Screw that! If you can afford more than one computer then you can afford to lose the security deposit.

    Oh... and then do what I did. Move to New Zealand. Mwahhahahahaha