Network cable install
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Electrician would find it easy enough. In a fully furnished house it wont be pretty or cheap, floorboards up, holes in walls, possible skirting board damage.
Im lucky i ran most of my cables while fitting central heating, fitting 4 sockets minamum to each room, behind TV has 8.
Im lucky i ran most of my cables while fitting central heating, fitting 4 sockets minamum to each room, behind TV has 8.
Have you considered a decent mesh wifi system? I have a reasonably sized house and it works for me, and I stream a lot of HD and 4K video content all around the house. I really can't see a situation where I'd need a wired network anymore, and as I've been ripping out old phone cables/sockets and TV coax around each room as I've decorated I think to myself if I had ever installed wired networking I'd likely be doing the same to that in 5-10 years.
Why on earth would you need 4 network points in each room and 8 behind the TV
Because it's as easy to run 4 as it is 1.
Livingroom already has five devices.
Ooh sounds good any good suggestions?
I'm actually looking at mesh as well and the Orbi looks good.
It is as easy yes but I cannot imagine needing so many unless every device you have is hard wired, do you not use Wifi for anything?
Flexibility.
and 8 behind the TV
TV, DVR, BD player, Amazon Fire, XBox / PS4 / PC / Valve box, hifi - that's 6 straight off.
Wifi is not the answer as it has a fraction of the bandwidth.
WiFi for phones, tablets and anything else which can't be hardwired.
Couldn't agree more, if you have an option, always hard wire
I can run cables around the outside of my property for the downstairs and up the internal cupboard into loft, then onwards to bedrooms.
Twin cables for redundancy, then switched as required, is there anything to take into consideration if running outside? What would costs Vs mesh network?
Twin cables for redundancy, then switched as required, is there anything to take into consideration if running outside? What would costs Vs mesh network?
You would either want armoured cable really, or run standard in a conduit.
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Why armoured? Normal external grade cable is tough enough to handle any normal abuse.
You wouldn't expect for other external cables such as satellite or phone to be armoured or run in conduit.
There isn't much point installing redundant cables. An external cable will be simple to replace if it ever needs to be.
You wouldn't expect for other external cables such as satellite or phone to be armoured or run in conduit.
There isn't much point installing redundant cables. An external cable will be simple to replace if it ever needs to be.
You lose massive amounts of bandwidth. You should wire for 10Gb ethernet; wifi can only manage 1% of that.
But in the meantime you're not working. And installing two cables at the same time is not much more expensive than installing one. The main cost is time.
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Domestically this would rarely be a big problem, and the odds of it happening are going to be low. Fixed Ethernet cables aren't famed for spontaneously failing.
From an aesthetic point-of-view keeping the number of external cables to a bare minimum is best.
If you're building the cables into the structure and they'll be difficult to replace then some redundancy makes sense.
But when it does, you're out of action if there's only one cable.
That's irrelevant as you're going to put them in protective trunking or are painting the cables to blend in.
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We dont even use armoured cat 5 at work and we run it thru ducting and up poles etc.
Its just not needed
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pretty much what everyone else has said.
Depending on how many cables you want downstairs it won't be pretty, as you'll need to run cables all over your external walls.
I would also suggest putting 8 behind the TV, I had 4 installed behind mine when the house was being built and I now need a switch, and I don't have sky TV.
Also you can run a HDMI signal over a pair of CAT cables, so consider if you want to centralise your TV/video in some way as well.
Depending on how many cables you want downstairs it won't be pretty, as you'll need to run cables all over your external walls.
I would also suggest putting 8 behind the TV, I had 4 installed behind mine when the house was being built and I now need a switch, and I don't have sky TV.
Also you can run a HDMI signal over a pair of CAT cables, so consider if you want to centralise your TV/video in some way as well.
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IMO if you're running cables externally keep them to an absolute minimum.
For the TV you only really need one cable and a switch with sufficient ports. Most TV related devices you're going to connect aren't even going to need Gigabit. It's also unlikely that more than one device will be making any significant use of the connection at the same time.
If you want to distribute HDMI add one more cable and use IP senders.
For the TV you only really need one cable and a switch with sufficient ports. Most TV related devices you're going to connect aren't even going to need Gigabit. It's also unlikely that more than one device will be making any significant use of the connection at the same time.
If you want to distribute HDMI add one more cable and use IP senders.