{"id":345,"date":"2008-08-05T22:26:02","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T05:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/?p=345"},"modified":"2008-08-05T22:27:30","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T05:27:30","slug":"new-place-were-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2008\/08\/05\/new-place-were-in\/","title":{"rendered":"New place: we&#8217;re in!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We just got keys for the new place.  It&#8217;s really awesome.  Everything is new, nice, and well thought out.  We took a <a href=\"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/gallery2\/2008\/new-apt-2\/\">whole pile of pictures to document where things are<\/a> (since not knowing how much space there is somewhere, or what colour something is can be a real hassle).<\/p>\n<p>My example of why it&#8217;s so awesome probably won&#8217;t be the same at Kat&#8217;s, but here&#8217;s when I almost lost the thread:  I was looking around, and there are wall jacks everywhere that have <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/RJ45\">RJ-45<\/a> jacks, which are the ones used for Ethernet:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/gallery2\/2008\/new-apt-2\/img_1083.jpg.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"wall jack\" src=\"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/gallery2\/d\/22479-2\/img_1083.jpg\" title=\"wall jack\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/gallery2\/2008\/new-apt-2\/img_1080.jpg.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\"HT hookups\" src=\"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/gallery2\/d\/22470-2\/img_1080.jpg\" title=\"HT hookups\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/gallery2\/2008\/new-apt-2\/img_1079.jpg.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"TV nook hookups\" src=\"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/gallery2\/d\/22467-2\/img_1079.jpg\" title=\"TV nook hookups\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>This puzzled me: Ethernet is inherently double-ended.  It needs to terminate somewhere, and these didn&#8217;t have an obvious endpoint.<\/p>\n<p>I moved on to the rest of the tour, until we got to the hall closet, and the landlady showed us this thing that she didn&#8217;t exactly understand:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/gallery2\/2008\/new-apt-2\/img_1057.jpg.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"patch panel\" src=\"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/gallery2\/d\/22407-2\/img_1057.jpg\" title=\"patch panel\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>A full-blown RJ-45 patch panel!  The place seems to have been wired with Telus TV in mind (which uses Ethernet and a set top box), but I&#8217;m pretty sure these are standard RJ-45\/Cat5e\/T568A cable runs.  That means that an hub\/router in the closet gives us 100Mb\/s (or even 1Gb\/s) data everywhere in the apartment.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, the place has other features as well.  You can see them in the pictures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We just got keys for the new place. It&#8217;s really awesome. Everything is new, nice, and well thought out. We took a whole pile of pictures to document where things are (since not knowing how much space there is somewhere, or what colour something is can be a real hassle). My example of why it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-moving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions\/352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}