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I'm not seeing an answer to this on About.com or Googling:
Is a 100' Cat5 cable problematic pertaining to signal loss? Is Cat6 better for long runs?
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Cat6 is always better, but I don't think 100' is a problem for Cat5. I'm sure there's a spec somewhere.
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It looks like lengths of up to 100m (328 feet) are in the specs.
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Cool! I've got a 100' length, four 7' lengths and one 14' length of Cat6 in my basket at Monoprice. I'll pick up the switcher locally as I have a BB Reward certificate. Maybe Sean will pick up and deliver the cables?
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Well, everything is mostly good with the network, though I need to iron out some security issues. In the meantime, I have a question that I can't find an answer to:
Is there a way to stop a Vista computer from EVER going on the internet?
I have a laptop tethered to my studio camera that I use for recording images, and now that I've got the network setup, it's constantly slowed down and interupted by "new updates available", etc. I know I can turn off the auto-updates (at least I did in XP Pro) and remove stuff from the startup group, but I can't find a simple option to "Never connect to the internet" or better yet "Never connect to a wireless network". When I boot up, I manually disconnect it from the wireless network, but it's already found updates in the meantime!
I can always hardwire it occasionally to update it as needed.
Is there such an option, or is MS hellbent on everything having to be connected at all times?
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Turn off your wireless card.
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Via hardware management?
I have another laptop with an PCMCIA wireless card, so I can simply pull it out on that laptop. But I wasn't so sure that turning something off via the hardware management would be a good idea for this one...
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Do you still need it on your home network? If not, I see nothing wrong with disabling your network hardware, occasionally enabling it for updates.
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No, I'd actually prefer it to be disconnected from everything. I can bring it up to my office to hardwire it with an ethernet cable here and there as needed.
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Well, you can either do it with a switch on the laptop (if such a switch exists), or you can drill down through Vista's network apps until you get to the adapters and simply disable the wireless adapter (right click on the adapter, choose disable)
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