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Anexkahn · 04-07-2007, 09:06 AM

The stuff i've seen advertised as 108mb wireless is mostly based on an "improved" compression scheme that claims to boost overall throughput, however, real-world tests indicated way less than what they claim on the box for improvement in speed -- not to mention you have to have the same brand of equipment at both ends to take advantage of this.

As for your question on ethernet in the home... if the house is wired with cat5 drops and an ethernet jack in every room, then yes, those all should converge at a centralized place. It is possible there is a "structured media" cabinet in one of the closets where all of these ports connect to a small switch/router and has a telco or catv drop and power so that it can supply internet to all of the jacks without having the equipment out in the open anywhere. Leviton makes some pretty nice panels for doing this and they're not noticable if you bury them away in a closet or some out of the way place during construction. It is also possible that equipment was installed in an attic or crawlspace and those ethernet drops do not converge anywhere in the occupied space of the house. You might also check at the telephone demarc, sometimes they are pulled to there -- especially in a multi-tenant dwelling where the telco demarc is inside of a wiring closet or other interior room.

Also, on another note, it sounds like you are in a multi tenant building and looking to share your internets with the other occupants. You may want to check your Terms of Service with whatever ISP you are using and make sure that it allows for connection sharing, if this is indeed what you are doing. Sometimes you need to upgrade to the "business" class of service to have this be allowed. There is really no technical way for the ISP to find out if you are sharing your bandwidth when you're behind a nat firewall, but it is worth looking into because if for some reason they are an ISP who doesn't like this sort of thing, it sucks to get shutoff -- and some providers will refuse to sell you service again for upwards of 12 months after a disconnect like this which is a huge problem if you are in an area where your options of ISP are limited.

04-07-2007, 09:06 AM	#8 (permalink)
Anexkahn Crazy Location: whOregon	The stuff i've seen advertised as 108mb wireless is mostly based on an "improved" compression scheme that claims to boost overall throughput, however, real-world tests indicated way less than what they claim on the box for improvement in speed -- not to mention you have to have the same brand of equipment at both ends to take advantage of this. As for your question on ethernet in the home... if the house is wired with cat5 drops and an ethernet jack in every room, then yes, those all should converge at a centralized place. It is possible there is a "structured media" cabinet in one of the closets where all of these ports connect to a small switch/router and has a telco or catv drop and power so that it can supply internet to all of the jacks without having the equipment out in the open anywhere. Leviton makes some pretty nice panels for doing this and they're not noticable if you bury them away in a closet or some out of the way place during construction. It is also possible that equipment was installed in an attic or crawlspace and those ethernet drops do not converge anywhere in the occupied space of the house. You might also check at the telephone demarc, sometimes they are pulled to there -- especially in a multi-tenant dwelling where the telco demarc is inside of a wiring closet or other interior room. Also, on another note, it sounds like you are in a multi tenant building and looking to share your internets with the other occupants. You may want to check your Terms of Service with whatever ISP you are using and make sure that it allows for connection sharing, if this is indeed what you are doing. Sometimes you need to upgrade to the "business" class of service to have this be allowed. There is really no technical way for the ISP to find out if you are sharing your bandwidth when you're behind a nat firewall, but it is worth looking into because if for some reason they are an ISP who doesn't like this sort of thing, it sucks to get shutoff -- and some providers will refuse to sell you service again for upwards of 12 months after a disconnect like this which is a huge problem if you are in an area where your options of ISP are limited. Last edited by Anexkahn; 04-07-2007 at 09:09 AM..