RE: Wiring idea

["Roger Bilboul" <Bilboul@xxxxxxx>]

Does this means you can use Cat 5 instead of CT100. How do you terminate
the
Cat 5 at the TV end?

Roger

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Mooney [mailto:fm@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 23 April 2001 15:04
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Wiring idea
>
>
> A much simpler solution is to flood wire your house in Cat 5e
> with a minimum of 2 outlets beside every 13 amp power socket wired
back to
> Node 0. In your lounge you should wire 4 Cat 5e cables from
> beside every 13 amp socket.
>
> At node 0 you will bring in all of your incoming services,
> TV/Sat/ISDN/ADSL/PTO services etc. Utilising Patch Panels and an
> A/V Hub you can
> distribute any service to any Cat 5e outlet. Also you can return
> devices such as DVD/VCR/Audio System etc from any Cat 5e outlet back
to
> the A/V Hub and distribute to other Cat 5e outlets.
>
> This is the standard being adopted by many developers now that it
> is available, So that an item such as the TV can be plugged into any
Cat
> 5e outlet because the cabling infrastructure is all the same.
>
> Frank
>
> ewenjc wrote:
>
> > I was re-wiring coax in my lounge last weekend and I had a wiring
idea,
> > which I wish I had thought of when I first wired the house.
> I'm emailing
> > it, in case any of you had not thought of it.
> >
> > If you don't know where TV, hifi etc are going to be it is best
> to run lots
> > of cable to lots of location (always a good idea to run lots of
> cable).  I
> > have three possible locations for the TV, Cable & HiFi and it
> needs three
> > coax, so I'd need to run 9 coax to the lounge and 3 maybe 6 to
each room
> > that might have a tv.  I did not have enought time to run this
number of
> > cables and I'm not sure the joists would have survived that many
holes.
> > Also the patch panel would be massive.
> >
> > Since the TV can only be in one place in a room, I could have
done the
> > following.  If the room has three outlets; run Node0 to A,
> Node0 to B, Node0
> > to C, A to B, B to C and C to A.  Each outlet has three coax
> which can all
> > be used by patching together the unused outlets.  If location A
> has the TV
> > then patch 'Node0 to B' with 'A to B' at location B and 'Node0
> to C' with 'C
> > to A'.  This will not work if you use bi-directional cable ;)
> >
> > This should also work for cat5 but is less useful as devices
> using cat5 can
> > more easily be spread around the room.
> >
> > Has anyone done this?
> > -Ewen
> >
> >
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