Wiring idea

["ewenjc" <ewenjc@xxxxxxx>]

I was re-wiring coax in my lounge last weekend and I had a wiring idea,
which I wish I had thought of when I first wired the house.  I'm emailing
it, in case any of you had not thought of it.

If you don't know where TV, hifi etc are going to be it is best to run lots
of cable to lots of location (always a good idea to run lots of cable).  I
have three possible locations for the TV, Cable & HiFi and it needs
three
coax, so I'd need to run 9 coax to the lounge and 3 maybe 6 to each room
that might have a tv.  I did not have enought time to run this number of
cables and I'm not sure the joists would have survived that many holes.
Also the patch panel would be massive.

Since the TV can only be in one place in a room, I could have done the
following.  If the room has three outlets; run Node0 to A, Node0 to B,
Node0
to C, A to B, B to C and C to A.  Each outlet has three coax which can all
be used by patching together the unused outlets.  If location A has the TV
then patch 'Node0 to B' with 'A to B' at location B and 'Node0 to C' with
'C
to A'.  This will not work if you use bi-directional cable ;)

This should also work for cat5 but is less useful as devices using cat5 can
more easily be spread around the room.

Has anyone done this?
-Ewen