RE: Any experience of IPHomeNet?

["fluff" <fluff@xxxxxxx>]

Not used em myself, but from memory they are not much different to what
everone else uses except they use a small size frame for the rack.

This means it might fit better in your house and being designed for home
use
is a bit prettier than commercial offerings.

The down side is it is custom. You will have to buy everything from
them
which means they can charge what they like & if they vanish you could
have
trouble getting new kit.

The norm (and industry standard) is 19" racks. If you go out and but
one
it'll cost you a lot.

Racks ?100-?500 for full hight (7') smaller ones from ?70 up
Patch panels for CAT5 ~?160 for a 48 port lucent, about ?60 for a generic
24
port.

**BUT**

19" is a very old standard. There is a lot of it about. racks can be
had for
?50 up or build custom ones (have a look at the archive for teh 23/8/02
for
an discussion of this)

generic 24 port panels from ?10

And it's not going away tens of thousands of companies have this kit so
it's
very well established and people are always upgrading and flogging old
kit.

Video can be put over cat5 too. See www.kat5.tv for devices for this
from
one of the guys off the list (Keith Doxey, one of our resident genii)

Overall IPHomenet is a very pretty system but you could end up paying a
lot
for that & personnally I'm always wary of propietary kit.

Hope that helps

Also don't know if you've looked at the list parent site
www.automatedhome.co.uk but there is a wireing guide on it which may be
helpful, and a guide to retrowiring here
http://www.geocities.com/nigelorr/retro_wire.html
Another one for new
installs is here http://www.wildtracks.cihost.com/homewire/
(but I've not
read that one as thouroughly so con't recoomend it per se)

Bit lenghty, but hope that helps.

A.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Colin Herbert [mailto:colin.herbert@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 01 September 2002 07:33
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Any experience of IPHomeNet?
>
>
> I am a Newbie to this group and to Home automation. Seems to me
> that IP over
> CAT5 is the way to go and that COAX is always problematic.
>
> I have an old farmhouse and barn in which I have run twin CAT5
> and COAX but
> came across the IPHomeNet system... www.iphomenet.com and
> wondered if anyone
> had any experience of the system. It basically runs everything
> over CAT5e. I
> was especially interested if anyone had linked this to any
automation
> software.
>
> Any feedback of value. Many thanks.
>
>
> Best Regards
>

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