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0 pointsajdude4y ago0 comments

I recommend just running conduit to everything during your next renovation, that way you could easily upgrade down the road. I wish conduit was used for all of these coax lines in my house.

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michaelt4y ago

20 years ago, I heard people online saying they were running their cat5e cable in conduits for ease of upgrading. Reasonable enough, after the 10-megabit to 100-megabit to 1-gigabit upgrades of the preceding decade.

Not once, since then, have I heard of any of them pulling new cables.

klyrs4y ago

I still want a mainframe in my basement and HDMI ports in my walls for thin-client laptops...

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walrus014y ago

there is a pretty good chance that 20-30 meters of cat5e utp in a house will test successfully for 2.5GBaseT today, not that even one percent of consumers will have such a switch.

throw0101a4y ago

Officially 2.5G can run up to 100m on Cate 5e:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_over_twisted_pair#Var...

So I wouldn't be surprised if 5GigE, and maybe even 10, could be done on shorter runs.

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