Comments on: Getting all technical; Cabling the house http://blog.rymus.net/2007/11/27/getting-all-technical-cabling-the-house/ Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:17:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: sandy http://blog.rymus.net/2007/11/27/getting-all-technical-cabling-the-house/#comment-69647 sandy Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:33:55 +0000 http://blog.rymus.net/2007/11/27/getting-all-technical-cabling-the-house/#comment-69647 Sandy starts to feel a little nervous..tee hee ... and while yer at it shur ya can do the decking out the back.. Sandy starts to feel a little nervous..tee hee
… and while yer at it shur ya can do the decking out the back..

]]> By: Owen http://blog.rymus.net/2007/11/27/getting-all-technical-cabling-the-house/#comment-69645 Owen Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:28:44 +0000 http://blog.rymus.net/2007/11/27/getting-all-technical-cabling-the-house/#comment-69645 If you need a hand, let me know. Done lots of this type of stuff before, I still have some tools, but I don't have others. But I can advise you on what to do, and how to do it, etc. If you need a hand, let me know. Done lots of this type of stuff before, I still have some tools, but I don’t have others. But I can advise you on what to do, and how to do it, etc.

]]> By: Ryan http://blog.rymus.net/2007/11/27/getting-all-technical-cabling-the-house/#comment-69639 Ryan Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:28:37 +0000 http://blog.rymus.net/2007/11/27/getting-all-technical-cabling-the-house/#comment-69639 Therein lies the problem. Since starting to do some serious work, I now find myself shooting only raw. Last wedding I came back with about 7gb worth of raw files. I never turn on the PC upstairs anymore (granted I must rebuild it), I do all my processing in lightroom on my 17" macbook pro. I'd agree that wifi is fine for 99% of applications. Hell, it's fine for occasionally transferring 5/10gb worth of files to the external drive plugged into the airport extreme. When I do eventually get a 2/3tb nas and use that as my working drive (i.e. when I get home, dump the cards onto that, import into lightroom from that and work on the files directly on the drive) my bandwidth requirements go up. I'm already doing this and it slows down lightroom a bit. Yes, I'm quite paranoid about losing files. I didn't give a crap about losing a few gigs back when I was just shooting for fun cos I'd just go and re-shoot whatever location. Now, when there's sometimes money involved, I'm ultimately accountable. Like Mary Harney. Oh wait... Therein lies the problem. Since starting to do some serious work, I now find myself shooting only raw. Last wedding I came back with about 7gb worth of raw files. I never turn on the PC upstairs anymore (granted I must rebuild it), I do all my processing in lightroom on my 17″ macbook pro.

I’d agree that wifi is fine for 99% of applications. Hell, it’s fine for occasionally transferring 5/10gb worth of files to the external drive plugged into the airport extreme. When I do eventually get a 2/3tb nas and use that as my working drive (i.e. when I get home, dump the cards onto that, import into lightroom from that and work on the files directly on the drive) my bandwidth requirements go up. I’m already doing this and it slows down lightroom a bit.

Yes, I’m quite paranoid about losing files. I didn’t give a crap about losing a few gigs back when I was just shooting for fun cos I’d just go and re-shoot whatever location. Now, when there’s sometimes money involved, I’m ultimately accountable. Like Mary Harney. Oh wait…

]]> By: Donncha O Caoimh http://blog.rymus.net/2007/11/27/getting-all-technical-cabling-the-house/#comment-69635 Donncha O Caoimh Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:03:22 +0000 http://blog.rymus.net/2007/11/27/getting-all-technical-cabling-the-house/#comment-69635 I would stick with the wifi instead of hacking into walls to install cabling. It is slower, but then, how many times are you going to be doing serious work on RAW files on a tiny laptop screen in your living room while watching tv? If you just want to view photos, create 1024px wide or tall jpgs that will transfer quickly. I haven't done that, but I can't imagine using my tiny macbook screen to do any serious graphical work so I don't mind sitting in my office. Wifi works fine for streaming mp3s, it'll probably be fine for streaming divx files too! I would stick with the wifi instead of hacking into walls to install cabling. It is slower, but then, how many times are you going to be doing serious work on RAW files on a tiny laptop screen in your living room while watching tv?

If you just want to view photos, create 1024px wide or tall jpgs that will transfer quickly. I haven’t done that, but I can’t imagine using my tiny macbook screen to do any serious graphical work so I don’t mind sitting in my office.

Wifi works fine for streaming mp3s, it’ll probably be fine for streaming divx files too!

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