snobuilder
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What does a home really need?
Wiring for a house for communications in a wireless future?
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snobuilder
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No really. I got wood siding so this is a legit question.
Where have things settled in at. Do I need to stretch cable and cat5 everywhere?
Where have things settled in at. Do I need to stretch cable and cat5 everywhere?
I ran coaxl wires case I get direct tv with separate boxes in each room. other than that phone line is just for dsl modem for wi-fi for the smart tvs for Netflix. Work in quite few new houses and many don't have anything other that outlets up high for tv to plug in to and phone line in to Maintance rooms for the router
Building a house now. Coax is all we're doing. Like others have stated, everything is going wireless. We were even debating having a land line, but went with it anyways just for the dsl. Now, we're not big gamers, and don't download a ton, but we did cancel cable and use a Firestick for TV.
favoritos
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Home run every room to a base location. Cable and network. It is cheap if you do it yourself. Sure, wireless is everywhere. I would still install wire and cable right when I have the chance. With a home run setup you can always put components in the room of your choice without some cable installer drilling and screwing wire in the most god awful locations. Sorry, cable guys. I do think it is a crime how many nice homes are torn up with crappy installs. Currently fixing up a house with hardwood and stucco. Multiple cables through the beautiful floors in single rooms. Screws and holes through the stucco all over the place. There are three different sets of wires hanging around. I have spent quite a bit of time just cleaning up the abandoned wiring.
I even run conduit through to the exterior just so the installer doesn't need to add holes. I might be a little over the top, but I don't have to worry about all the bad installation problems down the road.
I even run conduit through to the exterior just so the installer doesn't need to add holes. I might be a little over the top, but I don't have to worry about all the bad installation problems down the road.
I just got done building my forever home. I installed coax and cat5 in all the normal places like it was 1990. Just put blank covers over them unless the need arises to use them. All the wire ends up in the utility room in the basement. It is nice if you ever had to fish a wire into the room in the future and like it was said it is cheap and easy to do it right while building. Oh and I wired my garage like my house as well. Garageguy you would appreciate my garage space. I have 3 separate 220 circuits out there. The other cool thing I did was install a generator plug in on the out side of the house that can back feed my panel if the power was to go out. I can just simply flip a couple breakers and I am up and running.
dual cat6 and coax in every room. Think about security camera locations too.
Why wire? It is more secure and faster. Streaming video is the big hit on any network.
Think about what you may use in the future.....
Media server? clients in every room? POE security cameras?
Use Gigabit switches - hubs.
Only wifi devices I will install are made by Ubiquity. Can get on amazon.
Why wire? It is more secure and faster. Streaming video is the big hit on any network.
Think about what you may use in the future.....
Media server? clients in every room? POE security cameras?
Use Gigabit switches - hubs.
Only wifi devices I will install are made by Ubiquity. Can get on amazon.
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You should probably delete this post before an electric company sees your little breaker set up.
For why? It passed inspection by the state of MN. I don't get it? Or don't you understand how it works? You shut main off and flip the breaker below on which is the plug in for the generator. Thats what that plate is there for. So you can't have em both on at the same time. Thats not my panel even. Just a picture off the net that is similar to what I did.
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snobuilder
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Tanks folks.....took the conduit route. It's a small ranch flip house, so I ran conduit stubs from joist space up into 3 bedrooms, dining/kithen and liv. rm.
lol.
I haven't ever had phone. I haven't had cable tv in almost a decade. Get a cell phone and high speed internet with wifi. That's all you need.
I'm a bit corrupt with the torrent stuff, lol. I watch tv on Amazon, Netflix and Youtube. Hulu is basically cable tv on the internet - but I'm a bit bored of the network television format so I don't use Hulu.
I haven't ever had phone. I haven't had cable tv in almost a decade. Get a cell phone and high speed internet with wifi. That's all you need.
I'm a bit corrupt with the torrent stuff, lol. I watch tv on Amazon, Netflix and Youtube. Hulu is basically cable tv on the internet - but I'm a bit bored of the network television format so I don't use Hulu.
dfattack
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Agree with everything including Ubiquity devices (switches and AP's) Good stuff. CAT 6+ is the cable I would pull now. CAT 7 is out there but still expensive. Would NOT run CAT 5 anything anymore