I will be wiring up three and a half rooms downstairs this weekend, and the floors will be up this weekend to get the cabling down. As we'd ideally not have to get the floors up very often (if ever!) I'll be putting in as much redundancy as I can manage.
The 'half' room is the under the stairs cupboard where my server, modem, router and switch will be moved too into the new rack I've just built. In basic and brief format (without resorting to my amazing paint skills):
[|Front Room|[under the stairs]|dining room|kitchen]
Things that will be going in: Cat5e cabling, Power cables, Speaker Cabling, a USB extender cable (for my xbmc remote).
I've a 100m drum of cat5e cabling, of which I'll probably lay 12-16 cables bundled into fours - I'll have 6 or so devices plugged into them but obviously I want the redundancy in there incase of cable failure in the future. Eventually these will go to wall sockets driven into the wall, but for the moment they will just come out of a drilled hole in the floor.
Due to lack of plug sockets I'm forced to run the power cabling to the front room, but we have an excess of plug sockets there from when we rewired it last year, and as only one will be used at a time it shouldn't be a problem.
I've a 50m drum of speaker cabling, my hifi setup runs four speakers in the front room and living room, and the cabling will only be needed for 2 speakers, as the two speakers in the front room are already wired in. Again though for redundancy I will lay two sets of the wires for each speaker.
There will only be one device in the kitchen, so two wires will be split off from one of the bundles of four to head in that direction.
I guess my main concern is do I need some shielding/insulation? Anything else I need to think about?
The 'half' room is the under the stairs cupboard where my server, modem, router and switch will be moved too into the new rack I've just built. In basic and brief format (without resorting to my amazing paint skills):
[|Front Room|[under the stairs]|dining room|kitchen]
Things that will be going in: Cat5e cabling, Power cables, Speaker Cabling, a USB extender cable (for my xbmc remote).
I've a 100m drum of cat5e cabling, of which I'll probably lay 12-16 cables bundled into fours - I'll have 6 or so devices plugged into them but obviously I want the redundancy in there incase of cable failure in the future. Eventually these will go to wall sockets driven into the wall, but for the moment they will just come out of a drilled hole in the floor.
Due to lack of plug sockets I'm forced to run the power cabling to the front room, but we have an excess of plug sockets there from when we rewired it last year, and as only one will be used at a time it shouldn't be a problem.
I've a 50m drum of speaker cabling, my hifi setup runs four speakers in the front room and living room, and the cabling will only be needed for 2 speakers, as the two speakers in the front room are already wired in. Again though for redundancy I will lay two sets of the wires for each speaker.
There will only be one device in the kitchen, so two wires will be split off from one of the bundles of four to head in that direction.
I guess my main concern is do I need some shielding/insulation? Anything else I need to think about?
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