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

[Matt Poff]

Cheers. The mp3 streaming solutions look good but don't work for me at 
the moment as I don't keep a server running in the house 24/7 and don't 
want to plant powered-speakers everywhere. When I do want to stream 
audio I can do that at the moment with an Airport Express and laptop.

So I'm thinking I'll still do a couple of runs of the Lexcom (one for 
Gigabit Ethernet, the other to share phone and ... whatever may come 
along). I'll add in a run of 4-core 14AWG speaker cable (the longest run 
is 20m but to low Ohm outdoor speakers). This guy does a 50M roll of 
cotton yarn insulated cable for $160:

http://www.dynamix.co.nz/index.html?VS=p&G=CA-1450-2&P=&ID=5260820


Cory's does the Lexcom for $1.87/mtr trade so I reckon a couple of runs 
of this and the audio should be pretty good future proofing...

yuri wrote:
> Don't bother. Run some high quality speaker cable instead.
> Coax (RG6) is not too expensive so you might as well throw some of
> that in as well - future proofing.
>
> Alternatively, you could get an ethernet music player that plays mp3
> files streamed from a server. (eg SliMP3 - google it. There may be
> others too)
>
> Yuri
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