Re: Home ethernet

Definitely do it.

You don't say if its one story or two above ground.  Or if your utility
closet in in a basement or not.  Attic or crawl space. Depending on the
layout of your how sort of determines how hard the retrofit is once the
walls are closed.

In my case, my wiring closet is also the utility room in the basement.  It
doesn't get too hot (as it's a basement) even with the furnace going.  I ran
4 or 5 lines of cat6 from the basement to 2nd floor attic and dropped one in
my office and left the others looped in the attic for later.

You can't run cat inside of your electrical 110v pipes as it (supposedly)
will cause interference.

You might want to run some coax while your at it!!

I ran coax and cat to my kitchen and family room.  Brought the comcast into
the basement and distributed video/tele/network from there.

Jay


On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Larry Garfield <[email protected]>wrote:

> By MDF you mean the place where the lines all come together in the switch,
> aka
> wiring closet, I presume?  At present I'm looking at putting that in the
> utility room with the furnace and water boiler since there should be plenty
> of
> space, although thinking about that now I'm wondering if that would be too
> warm.  Any recommendations?
>
> I am not sure if the electrician is planning on putting in pipe or not.  My
> contractor didn't say.  The price he quoted was higher than I expected so
> he
> may be.  OTOH, I did map out 1-2 jacks per room for flexibility so that I
> can
> rearrange furniture later as the situation requires, so 12 lines total for
> the
> house.  I'm pretty sure I won't be exceeding any distance limitations as
> it's
> only a single family home.
>
> --Larry Garfield
>
> On Sunday, March 06, 2011 9:16:46 pm sjk wrote:
> > Yes, do it now while your walls are open. Unless you plan on piping
> > everything the cost will be minimal. I would probably pull CAT6 at this
> > point and terminate it with the cheaper CAT5e panels and inserts for the
> > time being. The bigger issue is locating and designing your MDF. Make
> > sure it has enough ventilation and power and that the drops do not
> > exceed any distance limitations. When choosing your drops make
> > allowances for future multi-media and VoIP equipment.
> >
> >
> > programming geek, so I'm a bit out of my element here.  Any advise or
> > experience anyone has to share would be most appreciated.
> >
> > On 03/06/2011 07:45 PM, Larry Garfield wrote:
> > > programming geek, so I'm a bit out of my element here.  Any advise or
> > > experience anyone has to share would be most appreciated.
> --
> Linux Users Of Northern Illinois (Chicago) - Technical Discussion
> http://luni.org/mailman/listinfo/luni
>

-- 
Linux Users Of Northern Illinois (Chicago) - Technical Discussion 
http://luni.org/mailman/listinfo/luni