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( 0 of 2 found this review helpful ) Posted: Jan 22 2003
I've got a pretty complex home LAN--in fact, for a home LAN, it's extraordinarily complex. I've got an outside net hooked to my DSL modem (rather than just connecting a gateway box to the modem--I serve my domains, so I need two DNS servers), an internal net for private stuff, a wireless LAN, and an isolated net that the wireless LAN connects to, from which the only thing anybody can reach is the VPN server (you've gotta have a VPN if you want to use a wireless LAN; WEP is a joke). And, sometime this year or next, I expect to run a line out to the office in the garage, and put yet another Ethernet segment out there. (The WLAN doesn't really reach out there, since line-of-sight runs through the roof of the house.)With all this stuff, I have an extensive collection of spaghetti. My wife's been complaining for a while about how much of a mess there is in the office; but, in the long run, keeping it tidy requires being able to look at a cable and know where it's going. Hence these cables, so that I can color-code the LAN. For a first step, I bought a bunch of yellow cables for the internal network. The outside net will be blue; the private net for the WLAN will be black; the long-distance line to the garage will probably be red or something.And, of course, since it's Cat 5e, I'm ready for Gigabit Ethernet once the prices of switches come down. Hee. :-)
