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saint:
RE: Chad's suggestion for Cat6 -- it's a good one. Cat5E will handle up to gigabit speeds, which is more than plenty for now and near future. However, 5 or 10 years from now you may need 10-gig in the house (I'm needing gig now for my home theater. Video server is upstairs with all the media stored on it, but the playing machine is downstairs in the basement. 100 megs works, gig means I can push more through it without worrying about bottlenecks).

However, copper is getting more expensive nowadays. Cat6 if you can, cat5E if you have to save pennies somewhere. Don't run anything less than Cat5e. You can run phones on Cat3 (or about anything with 2 wires really) but it limits what you can do with it in the future.

tk_42_1:
If you have plans to mount any TV/Entertainment equipment on the walls try to put extra boards up for support and place power/cable/etc outlets higher also.  This way there is extra support when you do mount that 150" plasma on the wall.   ;D 

Here are pix of our game room during construction.  Topmost outlet is speaker/coax/network on both sides and next one below it is for power.  At the time we were thinking about a wall mount TV stand for a standard TV (4 years ago.)  Now its nothing but flat panels so the extra board for mounting may be a bit too low.

Ed_McCarron:
Code permitting, a chase from basement to attic for future wiring projects.

Wire jacks with dual cat6, dual rg6, and whatever else you can fit/afford.  More is better.

An outlet under each window, controlled off of one switch for when your wife wants a candle in each window at christmas time.

A firemans pole?

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: Ed_McCarron on March 17, 2008, 03:37:54 pm ---A firemans pole?

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Stripper pole.

shardian:

--- Quote from: saint on March 16, 2008, 03:49:16 pm ---Also, highly recommend wherever possible (where there's a hanging ceiling, or attic space above or crawl space / hanging ceiling below) put in a conduit to every place you've got a wall plate. Might even consider putting in a blank wall plate with conduit stubbed up. Makes it much easier to add/retrofit things later in the house and costs very little.

Also - if you have a multi-story house, consider a single bigger conduit from the attic to the basement, to be able to easily run cable from upper to lower floors later.

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That right there is the best advice you will get. Our house only had swag lighting when we moved in. I did a few switch controlled lights, but running new wire down to existing boxes was a royal PITA. I switched to wireless remote operated ceiling fans to get around it.

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