Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Data Points cost 4Feb 22, 2013 7:37 pm Kenny & Kayla - Adelaide Follow our build on Instagram First build 2013 - Finished and sold Second build 2018 - Underway Re: Data Points cost 8Feb 24, 2013 9:15 am My Hamptons build (completed): viewtopic.php?f=31&t=63370 Moved in Wednesday 11th Dec 2013 Front landscaping completed June 2016 Re: Data Points cost 15Oct 18, 2013 5:18 pm My Hamptons build (completed): viewtopic.php?f=31&t=63370 Moved in Wednesday 11th Dec 2013 Front landscaping completed June 2016 Re: Data Points cost 16Oct 18, 2013 5:47 pm cinder lovepub I'm not a cabler, but from what I know you pretty much have to get the cable for a double story laid during the build - because you've got floors going over the top of the lower floor walls etc whereas for top level they can do into the roof space and do it. Our builder allowed our own data cabler on site do this, a lot won't though. Even if you just get the bare minimum, say 2 cabled points where your TV is run all your other devices wirelessly, and one to your computer, it's better than relying on only wireless. looks like you went nuts with all the cabling. I will be building with Plantation, so hopefully their price for these will not go over the roof. Otherwise fingers crossed that they will allow our cabler to do it during the build. Re: Data Points cost 17Oct 18, 2013 9:43 pm Before you go nuts and say "I have 6 devices in my tv room that have Ethernet ports on them, therefore I'm going to spend a thousand bucks getting 6 data ports cabled into that one room" stop and think and understand your usage. You don't need 6 ports and you can save a bundle getting only one plus a 50 buck gigabit switch. Why? 1. How many devices will you run simultaneously? 2. How much data will each device pull down a link when in use? You will likely only run one device at a time that will be data intensive - and that will be streaming of content to watch on your tv or projector. Even that won't saturate a cat 5e or cat 6 cable. While you're sitting there and enjoying watching that HD movie that your media player is busily sucking down from your NAS stored in your comms room patched into a switch and connected over that single cable to the tv room, your PS3, your xbox, your internet enabled tv etc will all be idle and consuming no data. Don't go nuts unless you plan to be moving huge amounts of data around from multiple devices simultaneously and remember that your biggest bottleneck is not necessarily the amount of bandwidth available over the cable but the devices themselves and their ability to process data being sent or received. I'd even question the point of running two ports per room - one for data and one for voice. Who doesn't use cordless phones these days? Sure - cable one location for voice to run the first handset from but the other 4 phones you use in your house could be cordless handsets utilising that one patched connection. A single Ethernet port in any room of a house that is likely to need to use data is sufficient in most cases and multiple devices used in a room can run through a switch without any impact to performance. Unless you are hosting a data centre at your house of course... Completed a knock down and rebuild in northern Melbourne. Handover completed 27/09/2013 and now moved in. Re: Data Points cost 18Oct 18, 2013 10:30 pm Bluesuede A single Ethernet port in any room of a house that is likely to need to use data is sufficient in most cases and multiple devices used in a room can run through a switch without any impact to performance. Unless you are hosting a data centre at your house of course... this is great advice ... I hope the WIRELESS technology will become better and faster to compete with cable. At this stage, i will probably plan to put in a data cable for just the TV areas.....bed room can survive on the wireless i guess. I dont use landline phones that much...so that is no big deal for me. 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 13846 Scientists have used random matrix theory to demonstrate theoretically that the neutrino mass hierarchy can be explained mathematically. When a substance is fragmented… 21 20651 7 12004 |