Mastric Posted October 12, 2014 Posted October 12, 2014 I'm still working on that Office Project, for those who don't have me on Facebook here are the photos.
Mortelinnor Posted October 12, 2014 Posted October 12, 2014 It seems like you won't be raiding anytime soon... Unless I suck at construction and fail to see how close you are to be done.
Lyntha Posted October 12, 2014 Posted October 12, 2014 Near the end, it definitely goes from "Still looks like a lot of work to do" to "Holy cow, it's done already?" very quickly.
Mastric Posted October 13, 2014 Author Posted October 13, 2014 Network Cables, drywall, paint, floor/trim, outlet/lights, 5 days working, pending any delays, and material shipping
Lyntha Posted October 13, 2014 Posted October 13, 2014 I just ordered a bunch of networking equipment for my new house. But my uncle will be taking care of the work, not me. Going to convert a linen closet to a network closet then run 24 ports of CAT6 cabling throughout my house. My house is small enough with short enough runs (Less than 100 feet) that I could upgrade my network core to 10G in the future and the existing Cat6 cabling would support it. You only need Cat6A if you are going longer distances. What cabling are you running Mastric?
Mastric Posted October 13, 2014 Author Posted October 13, 2014 Cat6 for the 1G, fiber for the 10G. 10G Fiber network equipment is cheaper then copper still. 5 Boxes, 4 connections each, ~50ft per. I'll be swapping out my 24 Port gig switch with a 48 port gig switch with 2 10G fiber ports. Gonna pick up some ENT tubing in case i ever need to run something else too. I got a realy nice AP free from Cisco for attending a webinar, going to mount it all fancy on the wall in the entry way, almost looks like a door bell. Once I'm done with the office I'll be going after the rest of the house slowly. Since i have part of the southern house wall open I'm adding outlets to the master bedroom, kitchen, and dining room too.
Lyntha Posted October 13, 2014 Posted October 13, 2014 Yeah, I was going to mount 802.11ac POE AP's in the ceiling but decided against it - it'd be overkill. Decent 802.11ac routers are $150+ and POE+ ones are much more expensive. It's so much cheaper to just do non-POE equipment. What model AP did they give you?
Mastric Posted October 13, 2014 Author Posted October 13, 2014 An MR-16, it seems to have been replaced on there site by the MR-18. Appears to be the same thing. I'm gonna get a single PoE injector for it. Don't think I'll need more then 1 AP anymore, no longer have an apartment level of competing APs
Lyntha Posted October 13, 2014 Posted October 13, 2014 An MR-16, it seems to have been replaced on there site by the MR-18. Appears to be the same thing. 802.11ac or bust!
Mastric Posted October 13, 2014 Author Posted October 13, 2014 An MR-16, it seems to have been replaced on there site by the MR-18. Appears to be the same thing. 802.11ac or bust! Only my phone supports ac currently :\ My laptops don't even have 5Ghz N cards in them, I'm a desktop user
Lyntha Posted October 13, 2014 Posted October 13, 2014 But forward compatibility man! And home media. You don't have a roku or anything?
Budlyght Posted October 13, 2014 Posted October 13, 2014 i want you guys to know that entire conversation wasn't in English.... then Snugg said something about Goku...thats about all I got from that
Mastric Posted October 13, 2014 Author Posted October 13, 2014 I got that 600$ AP for free, I'm sticking with it I use Media Center around the house. I've got an HD Prime by Silicon Dust that allows me to watch TV on any networked system. i want you guys to know that entire conversation wasn't in English.... then Snugg said something about Goku...thats about all I got from that
Lyntha Posted October 14, 2014 Posted October 14, 2014 That's your DLNA server. I use Mediatomb on a linux server with 6tb of space: http://mediatomb.cc/ What do you use to actually play back the content?
Mastric Posted October 14, 2014 Author Posted October 14, 2014 I use Media Center around the house AMD APU, 8GB, 60GB SSD, 500GB for DVR in Living Room Core2Duo laptop in the bedroom No TV in the office, i would just watch TV in a windowed media center on another monitor Basically any WIndows7/8/10 machine
Lyntha Posted October 14, 2014 Posted October 14, 2014 Media Center is a generic term. You could have meant a smart TV's built-in media server capabilities, some portable PC (Think mac mini), a PVR system, a Windows Media Center PC, etc. Either way, cool. We have been using a Roku 3 for a while and just love it.
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