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New House Construction - Cable Management ???
saint:
Conduit. Conduit from every location up to the attic or down to the basement if you'll have a drop ceiling in the basement. That way it's easy to add things later. I ran 4000 feet of cable when I built my house, and still regret I didn't run conduit. I did run a long conduit from the basement wiring closet (doesn't everyone have a wiring closet?) to the attic which was a brilliant idea that my builder had. I've used it for a couple of things so far.
drventure:
Fiber is where wired networking is going, eventually.
pretty much all inwall phone cord is 4 wires, which is 2 lines. If you end up with a home office and second phone line, it's nice to be able to answer from anywhere. Fax also comes to mind.
A chase is basically just a largish "box" that allows you to easily feed cables through without having to use a fish and dig them through tiny little holes you drill out later. Makes it MUCH easier to push a new cable later if necessary.
Check out
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Ed_McCarron:
--- Quote from: Flake on October 08, 2010, 11:25:37 pm ---Ok what would I need "fiber" for? Also what is a chase and why do I need that in the attic? Also why would I need two phone lines in each room?
Not downplaying your suggestions I just really don't know what that stuff is or why I would need it?
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Fiber is for futureproofing. You can push just about any media over glass with the right adapter.
Two phone lines, but it's not, really. I'd spec (2) 4 pairs -- the cat6. You can run ethernet over one cable, and use the other 4 pairs for whatever. 1 pair for phone. 1 pair for remote IR transmitters. One pair for (insert thing you'll think of in a few years...) :)
The chase is just a pathway, to allow you to run wires later. Conduit, or just a space made available. Some codes don't like the non-conduit approach because it allows a path for smoke and fire, too. Then you get into fireblocking material, it gets messy.
Ed_McCarron:
--- Quote ---Also, I would ideally like to be able to play music off this home server through the soundbar I will have hooked up to my TV in my living room. What would I need for this? I suppose a computer with an operating system installed and not just a harddrive.
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Missed this part. Check out XBMC. I run it on a small form factor computer (Asus Aspire Revo) and it allows me to watch/listen to all the stuff my server grabs off usenet.
eds1275:
every single room of my house [except eh bathrooms] has ethernet, phone, coax, an rca video feed from my security setup, and stereo audio from my control room [that's just a weird one though].
Do your best to run what you need and think you'll need in the future, I've spent many hours running cable through walls and it's not fun!
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