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

[Matt Poff]

Nice! Do you know a good source for a 100M roll of that stuff? I'm 
assuming it's a touch more expensive than Cat5. That said, I can still 
use Cat5 for the data and just use this stuff for audio/phone.

Matt

Noel & Di wrote:
> Matt
> I did  what you are proposing , and suffer a  a small amount of 
> interference on audio. I have since discovered Lexomm LCHC300 (PDL 
> product) which has individually screened twisted-pair cable with 
> common copper braid screen all up 8mm diameter - PERFECT!! you can 
> even run composite AV down it at 900Mhz
> Noel.
>
> Matt Poff wrote:
>
>> 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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