Browse Forums Home Theatre & Automation Re: Very basic cable run question 5Apr 07, 2013 10:48 pm Kodiak Data Cabling onFaceBook Consult*, Design and Installation Data, TV, Home Theatre/ AV Cabling, Multi Room Audio, IP CCTV and Door Intercoms Ask for a Quote. *DIY DATA Cabling Is Ilegal Re: Very basic cable run question 11Apr 08, 2013 6:02 pm tezzab I stand corrected, but replied because no one else had. Now we have a pro who can clarify what Kempe has asked about. Other posts in this forum have indicated price per point, but I am certainly glad that Pugs, and many others, do it differently. My experience, in the commercial field, every point was charged for. But can Pugs clarify if my suggestion on single point to room and GigE Switch at the end is a passable method to minimise data cabling, without impacting on Networking performance? Are there any drawbacks or complications? krone tools at noon as a bare minimum sure... but what if you want to run other non IP services over Cat5e/6? lets make it 11:30 I have a lunch date Kodiak Data Cabling onFaceBook Consult*, Design and Installation Data, TV, Home Theatre/ AV Cabling, Multi Room Audio, IP CCTV and Door Intercoms Ask for a Quote. *DIY DATA Cabling Is Ilegal Re: Very basic cable run question 12Apr 08, 2013 6:30 pm Pugs, Not positive on "non IP" services. Cat6 carrying Video/Audio ? I do data transfers across the LAN. Haven't progressed to a NAS, yet. My setup seems OK, but that is just my current setup, installed in 2000. I'm sure everybody's "mileage may vary". My biggest data hog (LTO-3) is direct attached to 2 x Drobos, that also serve iTunes. Same CPU does LAN backup of my machines OK. Won't be adding to this system, as I am about to sell, and build a new place. I seem to be hijacking Kempe's thread here, sorry Kempe, but will be looking for new ideas for that build as planning progresses. So, suggestions welcomed. My biggest blue was to overlook the need to have redundancy in Data Points. Pugs, was that 11:30 EST (VIC) or SA time ? Re: Very basic cable run question 13Apr 08, 2013 10:37 pm tezzab Pugs, Not positive on "non IP" services. Cat6 carrying Video/Audio ? I do data transfers across the LAN. Haven't progressed to a NAS, yet. My setup seems OK, but that is just my current setup, installed in 2000. I'm sure everybody's "mileage may vary". My biggest data hog (LTO-3) is direct attached to 2 x Drobos, that also serve iTunes. Same CPU does LAN backup of my machines OK. Won't be adding to this system, as I am about to sell, and build a new place. I seem to be hijacking Kempe's thread here, sorry Kempe, but will be looking for new ideas for that build as planning progresses. So, suggestions welcomed. My biggest blue was to overlook the need to have redundancy in Data Points. Pugs, was that 11:30 EST (VIC) or SA time ? redundancy and non IP service yes video/ music/ IR control WA time just to mix it up Kodiak Data Cabling onFaceBook Consult*, Design and Installation Data, TV, Home Theatre/ AV Cabling, Multi Room Audio, IP CCTV and Door Intercoms Ask for a Quote. *DIY DATA Cabling Is Ilegal Re: Very basic cable run question 14Apr 09, 2013 11:49 am tezzab Lurgen, JMAP Thanks for explaining pros and cons of both methods. Good and valid points for Kempe. The gear I used is good or premium quality, and zero failures over 12 years. I also did say "go for GigE", 100 is dodo time. Careful planning at the room end can be neat, but everyone seems to use open shelving, making that trickier. Forgot the redundancy of having a 2nd cable . I had every room cabled at build stage, the majority with 2 points. Media Room had 4, even Bathrooms had 1. Handy when Internet Radios became affordable. My Central Switch is 16 Port, with a CISCO 32 port Patch Panel, also used for phone patching. More than 8 PCs and Macs happily use this setup. I only adopted the extender switch when the Media room required extra points for TV, BluRay(s), AppleTV and PVR. No congestion issues experienced, yet, even with the AppleTV playing, 2 overseas students downloading or direct streaming foreign language movies concurrently. That is my baseline. I did get 2 Cat6 run later, to be sure that the extender switch got maximum data. Thanks again, Lurgen and JMAP for coming in with valuable knowledge for Kempe's consideration. All good The only regret I had with my place is that I didn't think enough about placement of the security stuff. 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