Browse Forums Home Theatre & Automation 1 Mar 09, 2013 7:43 am Hi doing a major renovation/addition to the house. Initially was just going with wireless then thought might get them to cable. Before talking to the builder too much thought I might inform myself a little. Broad requirement is to network the house so I can share music and vidio content, access internet etc from all rooms. -Study needs a few data points for computers and a phone point -Living room needs data for appletv, wd live, +foxtel +tv antenna -Kids play room needs appletv, wd live, +foxtel +tv antenna -kids bedrooms need data for computer and ability to share other content -most other rooms get a data point in case we move things around and to maybe share music content I know I will get a professional to do it all, right now Im just understanding how it all works. Questions: 1. Does everything - phone, data, foxtel, tv etc got to the understairs router switch etc then get distributed on the Cat5e/6 etc or am I putting TV, Fox, Data cable all the way to the television. 2. What sort of hardware am I looking at to manage the network? Note not after any "smart" stuff 3. Can the data cable be run next to electrical wiring, some areas of the house have limited access. Re: Home Networking Advice - cable/hardware/data points etc 2Mar 09, 2013 8:01 am leblanc Questions: 1. Does everything - phone, data, foxtel, tv etc got to the understairs router switch etc then get distributed on the Cat5e/6 etc or am I putting TV, Fox, Data cable all the way to the television. 2. What sort of hardware am I looking at to manage the network? Note not after any "smart" stuff 3. Can the data cable be run next to electrical wiring, some areas of the house have limited access. 1. All of the data cables should come back to a central location - ie under the stairs in your case. Your FTA TV antenna coax will come from a splitter (probably located in the roof) direct to the TVs. For Foxtel you have a couple of choices - one box located under the stairs and use some sort of distribution system to send it over the data cables to the TVs. The downside is you need to purchase additional hardware to do this and the same Foxtel channel will be on all TVs. The other option is to simply run Foxtel coax to each TV point and have a box at each TV. This costs more per month but you get ti watch different channels on each TV 2. I assume by manage, you are referring to the physical configuration. Under the stairs your cabler will terminate the data cables on either wall plates or a small patch panel depending on how many data points you have. You simply use short cables to connect your router ports to the plates/patch panel. If you want to have more network points active than you have on your router you can add an inexpensive network switch to the cupboard. This connects to one of the ports on your router and gives you more data ports to connect out to your house. The cabler can also set up several phone sockets under your stairs - by connecting these to the patch points you can make any data outlet a phone socket. 3. Your cabler will know the regulations, but the short answer is yes. They may need to put the data cable or the power cable in conduit if minimum separation distance can't be maintained. Paul 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 13845 Scientists have used random matrix theory to demonstrate theoretically that the neutrino mass hierarchy can be explained mathematically. When a substance is fragmented… 21 20650 Versaloc is a mortarless besser block system that still needs a properly engineered footing. If you just do a 400x200 footing it will fail in time. At 17m long you need it… 1 17244 |