[mythtvnz] Cabling my house

[Robin Gilks]

> On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 20:26 +1200, Toby Mills wrote:
[snip]
>
> Heh.  My current plan is 3 runs of Cat 5e to every panel, only 2 will be
> terminated on RJ45's.  The other will be left unterminated (in case I
> want phone or something else).  Some speaker cables will be run to
> suitable locations (left, right and center in the lounge, B set to the
> family room).  I thought thought about the audio signal cable...  I am
> thinking about running balanced audio from the server to a few locations
> for the jukebox feed.
>

Don't forget that with standard sructured wiring you can run ethernet and
phone and still have a pair left on a single cable.

My place was built by Stonewood and they managed to put CAT5E to every
room for the phone and kroned all the cables into a box in the garage and
used the correct pairs!! Made my conversion job easy as I only had to put
a 100meg switch into the wall box and krone the flying cables from it into
the termination block and I was totally wired :-) Getting ethernet in any
room now just required an RJ45 splitter from Dick Smith to break out the
phone from the ethernet (unfortunately many ethernet cards short out the
unused pairs - not very friendly!)

Another good touch was 3 RG6 cables to the lounge so I have TV (combined
VHF and UHF), satellite and a return to a distribution amp in the garage
that then goes out round the house. That allows a VCR or sat box in the
lounge to be repeated round the whole house.

-- 
Robin Gilks