It turns out that the roll of "speaker wire" my friend gave me when cleaning out his shop is actually cat5e ehtenet cabling . So , I'm faced with a decision - I have 400 feet of this stuff , which is plenty enough to wire my whole house for internet connections . On the other hand , wireless is much cleaner and easier to move computers around if we change the layout of our furnishings . Or maybe a combination , since some comps already have a wireless card and some don't - and the one out in the shop has a card but signal strength is iffy at times . Not much worry here about getting hacked , a stranger down here in The Holler would be questioned - and the hacker would have to be in my driveway to get any kind of signal at all so ...
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