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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

http://www.google.com/images?q=cable+chase&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=IeqvTPCrLcLflgebmNjoDw&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CDMQsAQwAw&biw=1007&bih=843

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?

--- End quote ---

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.
--- End quote ---


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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