[Eug-lug] wireless card recommendations?

[Rob Hudson]

Bob Miller wrote:
> Rob Hudson wrote:
> 
>> What's that entail?  What's the potential cost?  And what kind of issues 
>> have you had to deal with regarding wireless?
> 
> Five years ago, a 1000' reel was $75, and wallplate jacks were $5 to
> $7 each.  I don't know current prices.
> 
> Cat-5E is what you actually want, since GigE supports it.

Plus the cost of installing it (running the cable, dropping the lines 
into the walls, etc?)

I look at that and it seems like a lot of work vs. the ease of wireless 
which we've had little to know problems with.  Our house is pretty small 
and even a 50% signal on 802.11g means something like 24Mbit, which is 
fine for checking email and surfing the web, and is ~25x faster than our 
internet connection anyway.  :)

Maybe I'll run into issues when I start thinking about automated backups 
and things.  Hadn't thought of running cat5, so I do appreciate the 
suggestion.

-Rob