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Electrical Wiring Design Dilemma

What type of wiring is required for computers/wifi, televisions, etc?

3 years ago

We are having a new house built. Our builder would like us to mark the floor plan showing where we want specific types of wires to come out for computers/wifi, televisions, security systems, etc. I don't even know what each of these different components wires are called. Any help out there?

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Patricia Colwell Consulting
3 years ago
Get a compnay to help with this layout You will need an audio visual place that will help with layout for computers, TV stereo etc. IMo you need to have a good idea of where all this will be placed in your new home so maybe start with an interior designer to nail down the actual plan.
Ron Natalie
3 years ago
I put cat5e to all the TV locations plus a few places where I wanted WIFI access points. I've got 6 such access points (two of which are outside) but my house is huge (> 10,000 sf) and I wanted my cell phones to be able to fail over to wifi anywhere on my 2 acres.
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Patricia Colwell Consulting
3 years ago
My cell works just fine on my property with no extra help. We palnned on outdoor speakers but they are wireless.
Bruce in Northern Virginia
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I agree that its probably best to contact a company that specializes in this type of wiring. Everything in technolocy is evolving, so even a good estimate will probably be about 20% wrong for locations and types of wiring, but its better than figuring it all out yourself.

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Ron Natalie
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In fact, even though I've wired up a lot of places with hard ethernet, just about everything is connected to the WIFI anyhow. Amusingly, the Hopper (I ditching the DISH service as soon as CenturyLink gets the fiber internet hooked up, the DSL we're currently using sucks) seems to boogie just fine with the house network and the wireless Joeys even without the inane access point that Dish insisted I buy. I had to kick the stupid installer to the curb anyhow because he managed to bust the network with the way he had it hooked up though.

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