It's either going to be homeplugs or wiring up some of the house.
Here is a very crude paint drawing of the downstairs.
The blue boxes are power sockets. Need living room, bedroom 2 wired. Maybe bedroom 3 as well.
Fuse box etc is in a cupboard by the front door, the phone master socket (little red box of drawing) is on the end of that with 2 plug sockets above it. Currently powering the phone (cordless, other station is in the kitchen) and the router. Going to get a XTE-2005 to replace the current faceplate of the master socket.
In the living room (bottom right hand corner) there is going to be Sky HD box & HTPC which will need to be connected to the network. Sky box for Anytime+. Now then there is a double socket there which needs to power the TV, Sky box, HTPC, AV receiver and the sub.
Homeplug way would be using a pass through at the router (saves using an extension adapter), then two extension adapters in the living room. One to power stuff, the other for the home plugs. Or would a switch in the living room be better?
HTPC & Sky box ---> switch ---> homeplug
Sky Anytime+ work okay going through a homeplug? And the obvious there isn't going to be a problem with several devices going through one homeplug?
And there may also need to be a NAS connected to the network some point in the future.
Bedroom 2 needs to be connected as well because that's my room.
So that's 3 homeplugs at a minimum. Any recommendations on homeplugs?
The other way, which would probably annoy my Mum would be to just connect the router to a switch in the loft and then run Cat5e/6 to the various rooms. But that'll take a bit more time, effort and some planning, but it would be future proof I suppose.
So what to do chaps?
Here is a very crude paint drawing of the downstairs.
The blue boxes are power sockets. Need living room, bedroom 2 wired. Maybe bedroom 3 as well.
Fuse box etc is in a cupboard by the front door, the phone master socket (little red box of drawing) is on the end of that with 2 plug sockets above it. Currently powering the phone (cordless, other station is in the kitchen) and the router. Going to get a XTE-2005 to replace the current faceplate of the master socket.
In the living room (bottom right hand corner) there is going to be Sky HD box & HTPC which will need to be connected to the network. Sky box for Anytime+. Now then there is a double socket there which needs to power the TV, Sky box, HTPC, AV receiver and the sub.
Homeplug way would be using a pass through at the router (saves using an extension adapter), then two extension adapters in the living room. One to power stuff, the other for the home plugs. Or would a switch in the living room be better?
HTPC & Sky box ---> switch ---> homeplug
Sky Anytime+ work okay going through a homeplug? And the obvious there isn't going to be a problem with several devices going through one homeplug?
And there may also need to be a NAS connected to the network some point in the future.
Bedroom 2 needs to be connected as well because that's my room.
So that's 3 homeplugs at a minimum. Any recommendations on homeplugs?
The other way, which would probably annoy my Mum would be to just connect the router to a switch in the loft and then run Cat5e/6 to the various rooms. But that'll take a bit more time, effort and some planning, but it would be future proof I suppose.
So what to do chaps?
