I suspect that my friends and family think of my home network as over the top, but why anyone would not want to have a gigabit ethernet network at home is beyond me. How on earth is one going to do digital video streaming inside the house on measly 54Mbps dished out by 802.11g ? Given my plans for video streaming and the builder already had data cabling plans, I decided to go all the way and build a gigabit network connecting all parts of the house instead of relying on wireless only. Besides, boys need toys.
Here is a chronicle of what I did to build the home LAN.
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