There's a funny scene in Mister Mom where Michael Keaton is the new
stay-at-home Dad and his wife is now bringing home the bacon.
Martin Mull, his wife's boss, stops by to pick her up. Keaton is threatened,
so he makes his appearance at 7:15 in the morning by walking through the
dining room wearing full construction gear, including safety goggles and a
running chainsaw.
Mull asks, "Doing a little remodeling?" And Keaton nonchalantly admits that
this is what he's up to, waving the chain saw around like it's a #2 pencil.
"Gonna rewire with 220?" asks Mull? "Uh, yeah, 220, 221, whatever it takes,"
bluffs Keaton.
So we're doing a little remodeling, and this Old House isn't friendly towards
wire. And I'm too old a codger to try this new-fangled 'wireless' business.
(If God hadn't mean for us to use wires, he wouldn't have made electricity
out of electrons.)
So I figure, hey, let's run some Ethernet while the walls are open. And I read
the headlines of the free magazines that show up here, so I KNOW that Cat 6
is much better than Cat 5, right? Well, it might be better. It's certainly
not going to be any worse. Right?
But the rest of the house is Cat 5 with 100BaseT switches and cards.
What do I have to do to take advantage of this newfound super-duper wire
that's running through the new part of the house?
Whil
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