Nightmare fitting cat6 faceplate modules.

Fair enough, my point was just that we are probably now on the cusp on the point where wireless connections are reliable enough.

As to your other points, bend radius in cat 5e did matter, in so much as a kink in the cable would reduce it from gigabit to 100 Mb/s.

I too have messed up faceplates. Deeper back boxes helped, but most of the time I now just let the wires come out of the wall and use a solid cable RJ45.

But I'm just a novice so listen to the experts.

But are they fast enough?

I can confortably store a large file on my home server and edit it from a PC without copying it to the local hard disk, using a 1gb connection that is independent of the other connections going on around the house. Wireless on the other hand, has multiple devices all on the same channel and competing for bandwidth, plus many bands are in use by neighbours.

SteveW

You may be right, my wireless bandwidth is only about two times what the disks in the server and PC can deliver.

The hardware raid 6 controller in our home server can saturate a gigabit wired connection by itself as can a couple of our PCs with Raid 0. Although it is not really required 99% of the time.

Although an 802.11ac wireless connection has a theoretical performance of 1,300 Mbps, the typical, actual performance is, apparently, more like

Admittedly, most people won't have a home server at all and don't typically hang 4 PCs and 2 laptops off it (usually at least 3 in use), plus using multiple satellite boxes around the house, all sharing their tuners and recording and timeshifting continuously to a single box. I prefer those wired connections and the knowledge that there will be no bottlenecks crippling recording or timeshift while transferring data from server to PC or vice-versa.

SteveW

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As long as there not any more and close together the twist over that distance isn't that crucial..

Yes the wireless may well and will be by itself, but the problem is the amount of interference from other users around these days!...