Low Voltage Wiring - Attic vs Closet for Termination/Distribution?
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Comments (9)I am using leviton and will be running cat6 cabling throughout the house. The cost with the walls opened up is small and I will take a wired port of wireless any day for fixed devices. Right now I have it slated to have a 2 cat6 cables and 1 RG6 coax ran to 2 different walls in each bedroom. In the media room and the family room I will have 4 cat6 drops and 2 RG6 drops at each location. All these cables will be ran (in smurf pipe) back to a communications closet where I will house the router and switch. I will also be running conduit from the first floor comm room to the attic. I will have 2 locations where I will have access points. All in all I have about 36 drops that I can use for either phone or data. My comm room is really just a portion of a closet in the media room, nothing fancy. Just my thoughts but I am a network engineer :D...See Morewired vs wireless?
Comments (16)>It's a dilema easily solved. Put in lot's of conduit.... +1! That's exactly what I did--smurf tubing from a media distribution box to all of the main rooms. If the need should ever arise, I can pull fiber-optic cable to anywhere in the house as easily as Cat-5e/6 or coax. Bigbird: >Everything in the future will be wireless Everything? No offense, but this sounds wildly optimistic, if not short-sighted. Don't get me wrong, I hate the tangle of wires. I've often said that everything should be wireless. But historically, data transmission requirements have increased even faster than Moore's law, and wired has always been at least an order of magnitude faster than wireless. There's no reason to expect these trends not to continue. The physics of radiated energy are vastly more controllable through a conductive corridor versus OTA transmission, plus you have the full bandwidth of the wire at your disposal versus limited wireless spectrum. And fiber blows them both out of the water. At some point in the not-too-distant future, I envision a whole-house high-speed digital communications backbone, supporing multiple simultaneous streams of everything from HD-TV, multi-channel audio, phone, internet, fire/flood/security, home automation, photo/video/file storage and sharing, you name it. Naturally there will be wireless interfaces to this backbone available for low-demand devices that would be too impractical or expensive to run cable for. IMHO, a fully wireless system would struggle mightily to provide this without serious latency and throughput issues. My $.02...See MoreGenerator Wiring to Power Panel
Comments (39)"Petty-Racer: You seem to have a problem making comparisons with your preferred Honda generators and mine: First, the cost of my two were just under $2000 including the parallel cord. That makes your initial comparison in error my a factor of 22%. Today they can be purchased for significantly less than $2445 each. Have you ever purchased anything using Amazon or ebay where they can currently be purchased for less than $2100 with the parallel cord? You have herd of internet buying before or do you always purchase everything from your local hardware store or Sears???????? As far as fuel efficiency, your own stats prove that the EF4500 uses 3 times (300%) more fuel than the EF2000. Yet, you believe its an even race. Where did you learn your higher 3rd grade math??????? Given the first two comparisons and your gross errors, the other comments/comparisons don't justify consideration. Obviously, I like the generators I own and you appear to like the Hondas. Let's agree not to waste each others time again. If you care to offer positive input as Ronnatalie and weedneister have professionally done I'll consider what you have to say. Have a good day. " MAN you are an arrogant F-, aren't you. LOOK at what I wrote. Don't just glance over it. All the numbers I gave were for BOTH EF2000's. NOT just one. Second, I used Yamaha's list pricing as a guideline. You don't have to be an a$$hole and ask I know what Amazon or Ebay are. Continuing on with exposing your own gross errors, the fuel comparison is .210 to .296, which I acknowledged the 2000's were better. But HOW is this 300%??? Lastly, I NEVER said I had a preference of Honda over Yamaha. I used Yamaha stats since that is what you have/prefer. How about you READ and comprehend what is written, or just ignore me. Either way, why be a douche about it?...See MoreHow to run cat6 cables from attic down into closet?
Comments (20)Fred, Currently I have comcast into my basement and then to my LR. There I have cable modem, router with wifi, tivo. I don't have wired ethernet to anyplace else. Wifi is bad in a number of places away from the router. (This is in a relatively small condo - ~1600 sqft.) My primary goals are to improve wifi throughout, and allow for a tv on a tivo mini upstairs. And secondarily to provide hard wired network access in some key places upstairs and down. (No particular needs for that other than to provide a faster path when doing something intensive.) The key constraint for me is getting wires to the right places, especially from downstairs to upstairs. I recently had some other work done that required pulling thermostat wire upstairs. A place to do that was found next to the main hvac return plenum. I had the installer drill holes extra large and leave me a pull string when doing that. But the holes are still only about an inch. So I am limited in what I can get between floors that way. Hence my intent to pull a single cable and use a switch upstairs. (I will probably pull an RG6 along with the Cat6, just in case it is needed in the future, but I don't have a current need for it.) My intent is to hang the wifi access point on the wall of the stairway from 1st to 2nd floor. It is quite central, and I can wire it through the wall from that upstairs closet. Given the size of my condo, I hope that will give me good coverage in all living spaces, and it won't look ugly. And I can get to that closet from the attic, after running from the basement up there. I will move router to basement (turning off its wifi) along with the cable modem, with a CatN from it to the tivo in the LR. I realize that the the result will only be as good as the worst link. I figure that will be good enough for now - it should still be a significant improvement over my current situation. And I can upgrade other components later if needed. I guess the key question is how good a switch to get, since I don't currently have one. I'm not going to pay $1k. By the time I *need* more than 1gig I can hope that the prices are down. I don't need the switch to hook up the access point. Only when I want to also connect to a tivo mini and to other wired drops upstairs....See MoreElmer J Fudd
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