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Just in time provisioning certainly worked a lot better pre 2020! Nowadays people are having to go to all sorts of odd lengths just to pick up a games console released 18 months ago..
That was probably our only good bet, though, so I still agree with the punchline!
Even though I generally like the sentiment, replacing the cat-5 cable with a newer one should be a pretty fast task, and wired ethernet always is better than wireless.
Broadly agree, though getting a Mac five minutes before you need it isn't viable anymore given the two month backorder on many of them :-) Just in time provisioning certainly worked a lot better pre 2020! Nowadays people are having to go to all sorts of odd lengths just to pick up a games console released 18 months ago..
I like KK's work, but the first part of this article is weird. It's more of an argument for why you should leave pull strings in your empty conduit. That said, I agree with the idea of generally buying only what you need and buying it at the time you need it.
Even though I generally like the sentiment, replacing the cat-5 cable with a newer one should be a pretty fast task, and wired ethernet always is better than wireless.
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Agreed. Maybe there will be entangled particles in the future that get shot out down wires and then allow you to instantaneously communicate with people after you receive them. The right future oriented mindset in terms of building a house would be to make it easy to install wires. Or pipes. Or whatever. Just in time hardware is only useful if you have a place to put it. That’s the tricky part; trying to figure out h…
Uh. You can't shoot a particle down a wire. The electron that comes out the far end is not the same one that went in.
I did have two conduits to the patch panel for each wing and a conduit connecting the two panels. But these ones weren't terminated by boxes, they were just open.
What would fiber speeds be useful for in a home office? It seems like for most people, Ethernet would still be fine?
I found this part puzzling: "And the one place in my office I still use wires — my desktop — the existing cat5 ethernet cable was not fast enough for the new speeds of fiber optic." What would fiber speeds be useful for in a home office? It seems like for most people, Ethernet would still be fine?
It's... physically possible Kevin is doing something that requires 50 gigabit, but he's certainly not doing it with a normal wifi setup.