Re: Home ethernet

On Sunday, March 06, 2011 10:53:55 pm Jay Strauss wrote:
> 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.

That's generally the plan.  The house is 2 stories above ground, one below 
(full finished basement).  I'm looking at 1-2 single-jack outlets per main 
room (excluding laundry room, kitchen, etc.).  There's already quite a few 
coax jacks.

The utility room is in the basement, and there is a sizeable attic.  The 
basement also has drop ceilings so there's plenty of room to run wire there.

If I may ask, what did it cost you (ballpark)?  I have no point of comparison 
to know if the price I was quoted is at all reasonable.

--Larry Garfield
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