Browse Forums General Discussion 1 Sep 27, 2008 8:20 pm Hey,
We are at frame stage, and are just wondering about telephone points. Our CLE has sent out a letter about the telephone point installations, by KNOX COMM. I am yet to send KNOX a copy of our electrical final plan. Does a future internet connection require its own telephone point?? And, is it our responsibility to call up KNOX and tell them when the roof is on, when lockup is finished, etc... How many telephone points do you all have?? PS we have a special offer for trench cable and 3 points for $380. Is this cheap? Building Atlantique Mk 2 with Carlisle Homes. Frame has started. Visit My Website: www.evolutionmps.wetpaint.com Monthly Competitions. Please vote for your Melbourne Land Estate. Click Here - https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?t=9665 Re: Telephone Points Single Storey Home 2Sep 27, 2008 9:25 pm Our builder had two phone points included. So we put one in a storage cupboard for use with alarm and broadband connection. Broadband modem is wireless so we can use laptops anywhere in the house. Second phone point will be in the study for fax machine. Phones will be cordless with a base station in the study. Plan is to have network cables between the storage cupboard and TV locations. I can't see why we would need more than two points with modern cordless phones.
ADSL broadband shares the phone connection so you don't need a separate phone point for this. regards sean Re: Telephone Points Single Storey Home 3Sep 28, 2008 9:07 pm It all depends on how you connect to internet and what sort of phone system you have.
Our cabling guy installed a filter at the ADSL point where the wire entered our house, then split it into 3, 2 for phone 1 for ADSL. The ADSL one goes upstair to my computer room for Internet connection. One of the phone one goes to kitchen which connects to the base of our wireless phone with 3 handsets. The other 2 handsets can be placed any where in the house as long as there's a power point. The other phone line is for the Alarm back to base system in one of the closets in the bedroom. If you prefer the wired phone system then you will need a few more ports, but I would suggest go for the wireless one. If your area doesn't support ADSL and can only use cable modem then it might be a different story. Might want to check with a few ISPs in your area to see if you can get ADSL or ADSL2+. I think the wiring has to be done before the internal walls been installed, check with your site supervisor/CSR about the rough schedule. Make sure you get all the cabling things sorted out before that. You might also want to do a few other stuffs such as internal CAT 5/6 wiring for computer network, or speaker wiring for Home theatre, or the wired door bell/chime with camera, alarm system, ...etc. Hope this helps! Re: Telephone Points Single Storey Home 4Sep 28, 2008 10:36 pm Andrew,
Say hello to Grant for me! you can run your own phone lines ... just take them back to wherever Grant suggests and he will dig the trench and connect you ($300) then you have to pay another $300 to telstra to 'connect' you up too!! Re: Telephone Points Single Storey Home 5Sep 29, 2008 2:45 pm andrew_123 How many telephone points do you all have?? I'am a computer/network engineer by trade, I will be at the very minimum, running 2 x cat-6 cables to all living areas (excluding wet areas and hallways). That way in the future my kids can have there own internet/phone connection and tv connection( only if they are very good children mind you ). If you want to run something like a home theatre PC and watch HD movies a wireless connection doesn't have that much throughput. I know its overkill, but I'm a bit of techno nerd Re: Telephone Points Single Storey Home 6Sep 29, 2008 3:55 pm [quote="andrew_123"]
PS we have a special offer for trench cable and 3 points for $380. Is this cheap?[/quote that seems pretty good to me. Is it 3 separate telephone lines with points or 1 line with 3 points. We have 1 line 2 points at the moment. 1 behind the tv (don't forget that one if you have foxtel and want to rent movies) and one in the spare room which is our study. Hello All 🙂 We are planning to start our journey of construction our first home. We zeroed down on Metricon and henley homes based on design suitable for our lot and… 0 8096 If you're referring to Eufy homebase, then just put a switch between a datapoint and put the homebase elsewhere near another device in your home unless you want teh… 9 13825 Surrey Hills, Vic 3127 Garage is being built with metal, 3m distance away from my cover deck. It is parallel to my cover deck, living room, family room and kitchen,… 0 9611 |