Browse Forums Home Theatre & Automation 1 Jan 25, 2008 7:49 am Hi everyone,
We are currently building a new home in Sydney & I'm stressing about the cabling. I know that I only have one chance to get this in... before the Gyproc goes on! Especially as this is a double story home & with todays building methods you can't pull up the floorboards anymore. Anyway, I'm considering putting in HDMI & IR repeater cables between the office, loungeroom & main bedroom, so that sometime in the future I can transfer images & sound to these rooms. This should be OK for todays equipment (1080P etc), but what about 10 years down the track... HDMI will be antiquated & some new funky cabling will be needed. I don't suppose there's anything I can do to make it easier for future upgrades ? I was thinking about putting conduit runs between these rooms so that 10 years later I can pull out the HDMI cabling & pull through some new cabling ? Re: Future protecting your cabling 2Jan 25, 2008 10:37 am Hi mate.
Conduit and a/some draw-string is not a bad idea at all. You've obviously thought about running some Cat5E or Cat6 as well, yeah? Re: Future protecting your cabling 3Jan 25, 2008 12:41 pm I most certainly have. Cat5e I have been told is the current flavour of the month.
We are having a cupboard built in the office which will be the termination point of all the Cat5e cables. It will also house a phone point & foxtel point. I will install a patch panel in there at some point. But to start with, I will just place the router & modem in there & patch directly to the points in use. I only have 1 PC, but I know that in the future every electronic device will probably need an internet connection, so I am just getting ready. Re: Future protecting your cabling 4Jan 25, 2008 2:00 pm Rikster -
It's always a big cal asking to future proof your cabling. I've done lots fo commercial networks and the future proofed stuff always seems to be out of date by the time the clients go to use it. My suggestion is to run the cables you need now, (run cat5e) (as cat 6 is a bit of an overkill for the price) I'd also run the spare run of conduit with a draw wire to suit pulling something else if needed. My bet is in 10 years time you'll be not using it - or you you may be pulling something like fibre to do the lot. Technolgy is still changing big time in this area. We now have broadband and ethernet that runs over the power cables, and I have an convertor that will runs PC video over a cat5e cable for 200 metres to a remote SVGA screen. So the future cable changes fo video voip etc in my mind will be driven by technology injectors which will improve to being able to multiplexing the lot (sound, video, voip Ethernet etc) over the same cable. Steve Scientists have used random matrix theory to demonstrate theoretically that the neutrino mass hierarchy can be explained mathematically. When a substance is fragmented… 21 20678 Thanks mate. Yeah good points! Leaning towards Option 3 to get a bit extra space in the cabinets but not going too crazy high (and expensive). Would require a mini… 13 39767 Broker here - legislation says that every true broker must put the clients best interests before theirs so in theory they must offer you the best options for you on their… 2 46019 |