Re: Cabling advice, living room to future node zero

[martin howell <martin.howell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

CAT5E, properly laid and terminated, will happily carry 1Gbps, and is
cheap and readily available.  Anything 'faster' than this a waste of
dosh, IMO

Martin

Chris Hunter wrote:
> so no need for CAT100, etc ???
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> Chris
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> On 31 Jul 2007, at 14:55, Gareth Cook wrote:
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>> Strictly speaking, CAT5 will do everything you need (with baluns
etc)
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>> So if unsure, just shove a truckload of cat5 everywhere.
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>> G.
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>> ----- Forwarded by Gareth Cook/UK/IBM on 31/07/2007 14:54 -----
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>> Hi
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>> I'm about to start the cabling of our newbuild, and am after some
>> advice on what cabling I might want to put between the living room
and
>> the future node zero, to allow AV upgrades in the future.
>> A very tight budget means we're stuck with our current equipment
>> for now.
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>> Initially the living room will just have the kit in from our
previous
>> house:
>>  - TV
>>  - Sky box
>>  - DVD/Surround sound amp/Radio
>> This will just connect up standalone like it used to.
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>> But in future I'd like the option of just having the TV in the
living
>> room, and any other fancy kit in node zero (aka the cupboard under
the
>> stairs) - which is actually at the end of the living room. At a
guess,
>> the cable route from the anticipated TV position to equipment in
node
>> zero would be 15-20m in length.
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>> I'm after suggestions for what cables I should run between the two
>> locations ?
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>> I'm guessing some mixture of cat5, phone, coax, maybe HDMI ?
>> I'm not to well up on current/future technology so advice would be
>> great !
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>> Thanks
>> Lee
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