Browse Forums Building A New House Re: What is data point?? 11Apr 23, 2019 10:39 am I would not rely on wifi only and wifi mesh to provide good wifi performance to the whole house. This may be OK in an ideal scenario, but the real world is far from ideal. Wifi space can get congested and there are plenty of other things that can interfere with wifi signals, depending on where you are . Some consumer devices also do not perform well over wifi Ideal scenario is to run ethernet to a few points and have distributed wired wifi access points In addition if I want to reliably stream 4K video to my main TV I would be far more comfortable putting in a data point than having to reply on wifi for this A data point cost $100 when building a house, but a lot more later Re: What is data point?? 12Apr 23, 2019 3:01 pm Thank you for all the helpful tips and advice! Much appreciated Re: What is data point?? 13Apr 26, 2019 8:40 pm Talking about data points I think we had already got the sparkie to run about 13 Cat6 (network) cables from the data cabinet in the garage to various spots around the house. But I couldn’t help myself and because we are paying $100 per ‘data point’, I bought myself 300m of Cat6 from ‘4Cabling’ this week ($180 delivered), and in addition to an extra cable from garage to hallway shelf (to allow the router to sit here and is more central) we ran about 15 more cables out from this shelf area. So we now have 2 points in each bedroom, 4 in the rumpus, 3 in living, 3 in main study, 3 in study nook, 2 in ceiling for potential wireless access points, entry door/living for possible video doorbell and a few other random spots. I will get these lines all just terminated in the shelving and a second switch as a cash job for the sparkies son. With the number of connected devices only increasing for us I would prefer to get as much of the heavier bandwidth devices at least on a proper data point (cable) connection and then leaves just phones and tablets etc for wireless. Means less stress on the wireless router as well as faster/more stable connections for everything else on the data points. It is expensive though overall I agree, so we all have to make the call based our own preferences and priorities when it’s come to allocating our building budget. I’ll be interested to report back once we’re up and going. Here is our extra ‘purple’ cables sitting above the bulkhead for the shelving unit: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ This pic is the NBN cabinet in the garage with mostly the sparkies cable runs we were already paying for. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Check our Homeone build blog here Re: What is data point?? 14May 01, 2019 1:27 pm darb74, you are very lucky that your builder allowed you to do that. I would have loved to do it all myself as a friend of mine did, but sadly for me that was not an option. Re: What is data point?? 15May 01, 2019 2:51 pm Yoshi and Peach Thank you for all the helpful tips and advice! Much appreciated You should minimum opt for : a) 1 pair of data point - near NBN box inside your garage and somewhere central inside your house (lets say in Study) b) 1 pair of data point - from Study to behind the TV nice to have.. c) 1 pair of data point - from study to first floor (say in Master bed) With (a) you can position your Router (and wifi) centrally inside the house rather than in garage With (b) you are assured of a better connection (than wifi) for TV streaming With (c) you are assured of a point on first floor where you can install a wifi access point to ensure better coverage on that floor Re: What is data point?? 16May 01, 2019 4:12 pm brokenstick darb74, you are very lucky that your builder allowed you to do that. I would have loved to do it all myself as a friend of mine did, but sadly for me that was not an option. Hi brokenstick, yes we are definitely lucky but we partly chose this builder because we were aware that they offered this type of access during the build to their clients. Mind you this builder is certainly not the cheapest out there, but they have a good reputation and as long as we communicate with our site supervisor on what we're doing ourselves they are ok with it. Having said that I'm not sure the sparkie is going to be overly excited when he sees how many extra cables I ran! They don't like terminating anything not run by their own crew which is fair enough....but I am going to obviously take responsibility for any issues. To cover myself I ran another backup cable from the garage (NBN) to our main network shelf in the house....just in case one of the other two Cat6's has an issue. 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