[mythtvnz] OT: Cat5e sharing phone and audio - any issues?

Matt Poff mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz
Thu Sep 20 22:31:53 BST 2007


Hi,

Am re-gibbing a couple of bedrooms in the house and thought it might be 
a good opportunity to throw some extra wiring in the walls. I'm thinking 
of running two runs of Cat5e from each outlet to a hub location in the 
basement.

One cable will be used for Gigabit ethernet (for future high def video 
streaming to Myth Front Ends) and the other I'll split to carry phone 
and 2-channel analogue audio (can't afford to run optical cable, don't 
have home theatre yet and suspect I never will in the bedrooms so 
2-channel is fine).

Is anyone using a similar setup and if so what milage are you getting? 
My only concern is that there might be some interference between the 
audio and phone signals in one cable - is that likely?

I thought about running some Sat cable as well but with the 
MythServer/FrontEnd solution I doubt I'll ever need it. It's quite clean 
if I only have to run all broadcast TV feeds to one location in the 
house and then use data to carry them elsewhere.

Does this sound like a good approach?

Cheers,
Matt




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