Re:Wireless is best for rewiring anyway... (Score 1)

I couldn't disagree more with your thought.

The digging of the hole is expensive, whether the housing subdivision exists or not. Each additional cable put in the ground is relatively cheap when compared to the initial wire, but whether the area is in use or not makes very little difference.

By extenstion, wiring your home is still an expensive propisition, since almost all the runs are individual wires. The reason more home are coming pre-wired is to avoid the surface mounted raceways, and jacks. Things just look prettier when they are in the walls.

Real costs savings are achived by installing reusable infrastructure like cabletrays, and conduits since it cuts down on labor time during future expansions, and upgrades.

Wireless also helps in the regard since a single access point can serve ten or so users at once. This does come at a price, which is a lower connection speed. But, for most applications, wireless speeds are more than adiquite, and users enjoy the lack of cabling. Internet applicaitons are often limited by the outgoing connection speed, which for many offices is less than 10 Mb/s. If they are sharing document, most often they are small enough so that users don't notice the slower load time.