Sunday, 3 August 2014

Improving my home network

I have been trying to improve my home network, first of all I thought I would get rid of the massive amount of cat5e and coax from behind the desk. 10m of decade old cat5e has been replaced with new 1.5m of cat6, 15m of coax has been replaced with 5m of low oxygen copper coax cable. Hoping this would reduce my ping by a small amount and tidy up behind the desk, doing this has seen no difference to pings. Researching, each meter of copper cabling adds ~5.48ns, meaning I have saved 0.000129ms.

Results have been much better with power line adaptors over wireless for watching netflix and general browsing.

two white UK plug boxes in white box with three lamps power, connection speed and network activtiy

Less stutter and much quicker response, the adaptors have a network health lamp, which when green has a connection of at least 100mbpsFitment can be a bit of pain as the plugs extend downwards and the network socket plugs into the bottom of the adaptor. Only one network connection per adaptor which was easily fixed with a gigabit router. I was going to write up a setup guide however it was all just plug in, worked first time. 

left a4 sized box with a image of black box the router on it, right smaller box with image of two white powerline adapters on the front


pile of cabling and other computer peripherals in a pile


Things learned this week, 

Be careful copying mark up and macros' from notepad into Kentico editable text regions as this has created some strange errors, save publish then a small edit via the in page editor left this working fine. 

Kentico 6 does not support embedded code blocks which contain markup, two ways of doing this. Split up page content into regions, content that has to be hidden having its own region set by the visibility property. Advantage that the content editors can still manipulate the content, I went with an in line control so the content can be reused elsewhere without editing the template. 

Kentico 7+ does support embedded code blocks which contain HTML using k#. 

Alt+F12 in visual studio 2013 for peak definition is so handy, as you can type whilst looking at the definition of what is being used, this also has a bread crumb feature to go back and forwards through definitions.

Always check IE for minor layout changes even if it works in chrome, firefox, and opera.

Lots more to come but I will save it for when I have finished reading clean code.

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