Re: Structured approach to cabling

["Harrison, Mark (Alliance)" <Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx>]

Julian,

Two recommendations:

- Put in _several_ runs of satellite-grade aerial cable. You can run a
decent FM aerial, and a conventional TV aerial on satellite-grade, but
not the other way round.

More importantly, I would strongly recommend that you put in quite a bit
of CAT-5 UTP. Why do I say this?

At the moment, you could carry the following over it:

- a local area network
- audio (using either the pricey Linn stuff, or Keith Doxey's DIY stuff)
- video (similarly, using Keith's stuff)
- phone (different extensions in different rooms will come)

You might not want to do any of this _yet_, but as you say, when you've
got the floors up, you've got the floors up ;-)

I don't know what the next "big thing" to hit will be, but I'm
certain
that there'll be a good way to do it over CAT-5.

Regards,

Mark Harrison
European IT Manager, BP/Bovis Alliance
Tel: +44 181 869 1439
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-----Original Message-----
From: julian@xxxxxxx [mailto:julian@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 12 May 1999 18:31
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Structured approach to cabling


I am new to HA, but quite sold on the idea. I intend to move house in
the next 8 weeks, and am finding the HA learning curve rather steep,
given that time scale. Does anybody have any tips they can give about
the strategy to be adopted when planning flood wiring?

My concern is that whilst I have all the floors up and have the chance
to install as much cable as I wish, I put the right sort in the right
place, and enough of it. Once the floor goes down that's it - no more
cables.

I supose I'm thinking in terms of a masterlist to go through so that
nothing is forgotten. My immediate thoughts are to use a HomeVision
controller, lots of X10, speaker cables for through house audio, and
integrated security system and  and ...... can't think of anything else
at this stage.

TIA


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