I'm moving into a new apartment and thinking about improving my networking. Normally I have ran a ton of cat5 to get 100mbit between devices, and 802.11g for the laptops.
To improve speed and decrease hassle, my thought is to just run cat5 in each room (3 at most), and connect all those rooms through 802.11n bridges, access points, whatever the ideal terminology is here. Using one room as master with the cable modem and all that. Gigabit router/switch things up too.
How much do you think a setup like this would cost, and how the speeds would hold up? I've never used 802.11n but heard great things about it. The most speed/bandwidth taxing things I'd be doing are streaming a 1080P movie between rooms or playing online games / downloading linux iso's from a room other than the primary one.
Thoughts?
To improve speed and decrease hassle, my thought is to just run cat5 in each room (3 at most), and connect all those rooms through 802.11n bridges, access points, whatever the ideal terminology is here. Using one room as master with the cable modem and all that. Gigabit router/switch things up too.
How much do you think a setup like this would cost, and how the speeds would hold up? I've never used 802.11n but heard great things about it. The most speed/bandwidth taxing things I'd be doing are streaming a 1080P movie between rooms or playing online games / downloading linux iso's from a room other than the primary one.
Thoughts?