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

[Noel & Di]

Most electrical suppliers can get it for you - The Electrical depot, J A 
Russell, Mastertrade etc... I've started using this for everything in 
our house instead of cat5e  (40 way patch panel behind a picture in the 
hallway)

Matt Poff wrote:

> 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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