Browse Forums Building A New House 1 May 09, 2015 12:23 am Hi everyone, We are in the process of custom building our home and are currently trying to put together our electrical plan....eeeek! The 'things you forget' thread on this site has been a lifesaver so far. I would really appreciate anyone's thoughts or experience on whether or not they have added anything in particular to their electrical plan to ensure the house is NBN ready (when it eventually does come along). We plan on having TV aerial and data points in the Lounge, Theatre room and Study (all downstairs) and another data point upstairs in case we find we need to strengthen the wireless signal. I'm really not sure exactly what we need. Thanking you in advance! Re: Custom Build Electrical Plan and NBN ready - help! 3Aug 04, 2015 5:43 pm You need a conduit from the street to the side of your house. You then need conduit from the outside of your house running into your desired location which is where the data points will all terminate back to. Garage / Study / Under stairs / WIR etc. This will be so the NBN installers can easily pull the fibre into the house. This is all assuming you are going to have a FTTP connection and not FTTN Re: Custom Build Electrical Plan and NBN ready - help! 4Aug 04, 2015 6:17 pm Pretty much what kyle9600 said above. With new houses getting built within an NBN area/estate the builder will need to run a draw string from the street location/pit to the side of the house - another draw string needs to be installed from there to a desired location like kylie9600 said. My house for EG is going from the house to the garage where they will be a patch panel running to every room of the house. If your not in an NBN area then i guess i would still recommend putting in the conduit from the side of the house to your desired location anyway. I always recommenced you wire every room with data points (every bed room + living areas) - wire is faster then WIFI and you can a lot with it in the future. Re: Custom Build Electrical Plan and NBN ready - help! 5Aug 05, 2015 11:18 am H220 I always recommenced you wire every room with data points (every bed room + living areas) - wire is faster then WIFI and you can a lot with it in the future. I'd be more inclined to say only wire rooms that need high speed, media rooms and offices. Most other rooms\devices can get away with wifi. Wifi is getting better as the technology grows and really with phones, tablets and laptops you would mainly be streaming video, not working on CAD files over the network so wifi would suit. Allows you to reduce costs as you only need to wire in for a couple of wireless access points instead of multiple ports per room. 802.11ac is on the 5GHz band and can get up to 1Gbps so could be just as fast as wired depending on the devices you use. 6 55355 Hi Mofflepop, I would recommend finding a building designer to prepare plans, they should design to your specified budget. The benefit is you can tender the project out… 9 20428 |