Future proofing your house

Russinating said:
But why do you need that performance? Genuinely interested. It's not like you're going to have a server in the bedroom.
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I have the opportunity to do it.

A wired connection is more stable and faster than wireless.

The layout of my house would require more than 1 access point especially if using 5ghz.
 
If I had the opportunity and money to do it, I'd certainly wire my house with network points.

If you have a lot of media stored locally and/or work with large image/video files it's not hard to imagine Wireless or powerline bandwidth becoming a bottleneck.

Not just the speed either, the reliability and security (for the particularly paranoid) of wired connections can't be beaten.
 
Honestly, I decided against during cabling when I first moved into this house. Wireless technology is progressing whereas cabling has kind of been stagnant for the most part.

I doubt anyone's going to be running a 10GB backbone up to their bedroom.
 
The only reason I ran network cabling was to have the option of HDMI over ethernet. In all honesty though, wireless is pretty much taking over and is good enough for HD video these days.
 
Quartz said:
Would you have issues if there were four of you?
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I don't and I was going to put CAT6 all around my house when we start renovating it but I really can't think of any reason why I'd want to anymore. WiFi has improved so much and not many of my media players, tablets or IoT devices dotted around the house can be hard wired anyway. I have one microserver and that's in the office and I moved the BT master socket there. And to be honest, I haven't even turned that on for weeks.

I spent last week removing coax aerial cables and points from all over the house (5 bed) and I can only think that I or the next owner would be doing the same in 20 years if I install a CAT6 network.
 
Quartz said:
Would you have issues if there were four of you?
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Never been in the situation where 4 people would be streaming in my house. But there is regularly two of us streaming YouTube videos etc.

Guess maybe a big family or something is different. I just can't see 4 people in a family having 4 laptops plugged into 4 network points and all streaming at same time
 
Hedge said:
Never been in the situation where 4 people would be streaming in my house. But there is regularly two of us streaming YouTube videos etc.

Guess maybe a big family or something is different. I just can't see 4 people in a family having 4 laptops plugged into 4 network points and all streaming at same time
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But in the future when VOD is the norm. Then you "May" have issues.

Don't think of it as Internet points around the house. Its networking NOT the internet.
 
Surely in the future when VoD is the proper norm then so will gigabit lines and 10g (or whatever!) be.

I guess I just don't like the idea of Ethernet ports on every room and the cost/time vs minimal benefit.
 
Russinating said:
Surely in the future when VoD is the proper norm then so will gigabit lines and 10g (or whatever!) be.

I guess I just don't like the idea of Ethernet ports on every room and the cost/time vs minimal benefit.
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You only need around 4-5Mbps for 1080p content, and around 20Mbps if you are watching UltraHD 4K. If you have a family home for four people then you could all easily watch content separately on your own (bit weird), but if you're in a large student house it might be an issue.
 
I recently gutted my house (as wiring was literally a fire hazard) so took the opportunity to run CAT6 to every room.
In my situation, is totally worth it. Worse case scenario I have some cabling which isn't used terminated to a box in the wall which blends in with the electrical sockets.
I've tried to allow the options mentioned in terms of leaving yourself the option to later pull through additional cabling (because who knows where we will be in 10 years), but overall glad I did it.
As always, depends on your situation and your home layout.
For me personally, I'd rather have it there and not use it - rather than not have it and wish I did.
 
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