- Joined
- Jan 1, 2000
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- My Satellite Setup
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Triple Dragon, Dreambox 8000, Echostar AD3000ip, TBS6522,6925,6983 PCie cards.
Gibertini 1.25m motorised dish driven by the AD3000, with either Inverto BU Quad or Norsat / XMW Ka LNBs . SMW 1.05m + 3 other dishes. Speccy: Promax HD Ranger+
- My Location
- The Flatlands of East Anglia
I've been spending a fair few days changing and re-routing my LAN network, replacing CAT5 with CAT6 cables. This entailed running the four cables from the equipment (two PC's, downstairs and upstairs plus the Dreambox, and a spare point for my miscellaneous STBs and laptop upstairs).
The cables now converge adjacent to the BT master plug in readiness for the BT fibre router, to be installed in March (at last). The re-routing wasn't trivial - floorboards had to be lifted to route the cables, whereas with the original CAT5 cables I ran years ago, I could crawl under the floorboards. Out of the question now - if I managed to get under them, I would most likely still be down there now
With the old router temporarily connected (a BT Hub will replace it), Wireless connectivity has markedly improved on my Nexus 10 tablet now it and the router are in the same room rather than with the router being upstairs.. Also the CAT6 seems to have improved network download speed a little, up from 3Mb/s to 4Mb/s. For me, BT quote 30Mb/s when I'm upgraded, although the nearest fibre-to-exchange cabinet to me appears to be at the top of the adjacent street, so my copper pair runs for several hundred metres, notwithstanding an extra DP cabinet in the route I think.
The cables now converge adjacent to the BT master plug in readiness for the BT fibre router, to be installed in March (at last). The re-routing wasn't trivial - floorboards had to be lifted to route the cables, whereas with the original CAT5 cables I ran years ago, I could crawl under the floorboards. Out of the question now - if I managed to get under them, I would most likely still be down there now
With the old router temporarily connected (a BT Hub will replace it), Wireless connectivity has markedly improved on my Nexus 10 tablet now it and the router are in the same room rather than with the router being upstairs.. Also the CAT6 seems to have improved network download speed a little, up from 3Mb/s to 4Mb/s. For me, BT quote 30Mb/s when I'm upgraded, although the nearest fibre-to-exchange cabinet to me appears to be at the top of the adjacent street, so my copper pair runs for several hundred metres, notwithstanding an extra DP cabinet in the route I think.