Am I putting enough CAT5 into my house

["Benfield, John (IT Services, ID)" <john.benfield@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm just in the process of flood wiring up my selfbuild at present. Not
wanting to get into one of the those "Not enough Cat5" issues
later on (not
that that happens to anyone on this list), I'm currently proposing to
install the following.

All bedrooms:	4 ports
Possible - PC, TV, SLIMP3

Utility:		4 ports
Not sure what might be connected here

Kitchen		2 ports
SLIMP3, Possible touch screen PC

Dinning room	2 ports near TV and 2 ports in corner
TV

Sitting room	4 ports near TV area and 2 at the back of the room
Tivo + Phone, TV

Sitting room/Cinema	2 ports near TV and 8 at the back of the room (where
most equipment will be located)
TV, AV Distribution gear, SLIMP3. This room will start off with a TV
but hopefully go to a projector when funds allow

Study		12 ports
Desktop PC's, Printers, SLIMP3

Node 0 (part1)	Located by patch panel
C-Bus

Node 0	(part2)	8 ports
CCTV server, Audio/DVD/Data server, Possible MCE

Loft		4 ports
CCTV

I will have the equivalent of two node0's. One will be where the patch
panel, alarm, cbus etc will be located. The second will in the study with
larger equipment ie. servers. Call me a ludite, but all rooms will also
have
CT100 run to them, with the Sitting rooms and Node0/2 having multi runs to
support Sky+ and DABs. We'll probably use DEC phones so they won't need any
cabling.

Is this enough (how many is too much). Thoughts/ideas?

JB




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