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New House Construction - Cable Management ???
saint:
--- Quote from: Ed_McCarron on October 11, 2010, 09:44:00 am ---Despite the naysayers, I use fiber extensively in business applications -- the lightning strike that fries one computer may not fry others -- unless you use that new conductive glass.
Of course, if it gets into the power, all bets are off -- but I like glass as a layer of insulation against electrical damage. The comm ports of a device are typically more sensitive to electrical spikes than the power side.
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I use fiber at work, but not to the desktop. Are your maintenance issues higher with the fiber at all? I'd be concerned about patch cords getting abused. Like I said I'd run fiber probably if I wasn't going to have conduit for easy future access, but if I had conduit for future access I wouldn't add the extra expense of fiber right now. If money was no object I'd run it all.
Flake:
So how do you control a HTPC computer that is located in a different room from where you are accessing and viewing the content? So lets say my HTPC is in my basement connected via cat6 to the LR, office, and all bedrooms and I was in the LR or a bedroom and wanted to control and access the content on that computer. How do I do it? Remote controls? Do they really reach that far, even in RF?
saint:
--- Quote from: Flake on October 11, 2010, 12:06:37 pm ---So how do you control a HTPC computer that is located in a different room from where you are accessing and viewing the content? So lets say my HTPC is in my basement connected via cat6 to the LR, office, and all bedrooms and I was in the LR or a bedroom and wanted to control and access the content on that computer. How do I do it? Remote controls? Do they really reach that far, even in RF?
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You can get IR extenders that run over cat5/cat6, or use RF. I wouldn't do either. My media server that gathers in all the content is in my study. I have a separate HTPC in my home theater in the basement than does all the home theater playing, pulling it's media off the shared drives on the media server upstairs. In my daughter's room I have an ASUS O-play that likewise streams media off the server. Anywhere I have a network drop in the house, I can put a network capable device that pulls media off the media server.
I like having the media server separate from the HTPC devices themselves.
Flake:
OK one last question - Im going to purchase and setup a home server. Something like this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=59-321-014&ReviewNo=2010664&SortField=0&Pagesize=10&IsFeedbackTab=true&rdm=18#scrollHelpful1.
I was thinking I would put this in my basement near the area my internet service will enter the house and near the area all the network cables will come together. So my question is, will I need to physically access this server or can all my access/maintenance be from remote computers within my home network? For instance will I need to have a seperate monitor and keyboard hooked up to this thing or like I said, can I just access and manage everything from the different computers on the network? I guess I just maybe dont want to put this thing downstairs if I need to have regular physical access.
Thanks guys
upprc04:
You should be OK to access it remotely. When you first set it up you may want to have a keyboard/mouse/monitor hooked up to it directly. But after it's setup, you should be able to power it up, plug it in to your network and be good to go. I wouldn't plan on having a monitor/keyboard hooked up long term and just hook it up in case something happens where you can't access it remotely.
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