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Agree with Mark totally.
I have 8 to the back of my PCs in the study
and
shortly (if I get a printserve printer) I'll only have 1 left!
CAT5 is so universal - run as much as
you
can!
M.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 9:03
AM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] A newbie builds
a
house
Steve,
The one glaring thing is the number of
CAT5
lines you're thinking about.
I would recommend a _minimum_ of 8 CAT5
points
per room. The marginal
cost of adding extra CAT5 points at time of
first-fix electrics is very
low. The likelyhood of running out at some
point within the first two
years is very high, and the cost of
retro-fitting once the decorating is
done is also high.
8 may
seem
like a lot, but consider the following scenario. The issue is
not
whether
you think you'll want to do them NOW, but how little you
have to invest
NOW
to make it possible if you do decide to go that route
LATER, compared to
how much it would cost to retrofit later!
- PC (maybe you don't want
a
PC in your guest bedroom today, but are you
sure you'll never want to
provide your visiting cousins from the States
with a web browser in
their
room?)
- Laptop plug-in point on your home network connected to the
Internet
(again, you didn't know you needed to do this, until you were
in
the
kitchen, trying to remember what temperature to set the oven for a
creme
brulee, and realised that the best place to find out was the
Internet
-
maybe you don't have the laptop yet.)
- Networked MP3 player
(trust me, once you've got it, you won't want to
give it up, and you'll
want more.)
- Whole-house audio/video distribution over CAT 5, (so
you
can carry on
watching that DVD even though you go into the
conservatory.)
- Infrared control over CAT5 (so you can pause that
DVD
you were
watching in the conservatory)
- Phone extension plugged
into a "baby" switchboard, run into your ISDN
line. (Don't see the point
of
having indepedant phone lines in your
house - wait till you have
teenagers!)
- 2 more for reasons that we haven't thought about yet
but,
heh, I'd
only thought about PCs when I first went to wire my house with
CAT5!
I said 8 - ideally 16 (thus giving a set of 4 in each corner,
so
you
have flexibility about _where_ each device can go within a
room!)
Regards,
Mark Harrison
Head of Systems,
eKingfisher
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Clark
[mailto:steev@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 22 August 2001 22:53
To:
ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: [ukha_d] A newbie builds a
house
[...]
After several years of talking and thinking about
it, it finally
looks like we're going to be building our house by the
end
of the
year. It's going to be a 3 bed timber frame on our existing
large
plot in Bedfordshire.
All along I've assumed we were going to be
wiring for most
eventualities. I like my computers, so there will be
CAT5
to every
room (at least 2 lines) and probably coax as well for the
video.
Having played with the likes of SnapStream I can imagine using PCs
for
distributed video as well as MP3 and
internet.
[...]
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