RE: Wiring idea (KAT5)

["Gareth Cook/STA/Lotus" <gcook@xxxxxxx>]

So - what about this KAT5 stuff then ?
Is it not yet available ? Surely it would solve all these problems ?

G.

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Keith Doxey <ukha.diyha@xxxxxxx>
Today 16:11

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Subject: .	RE: [ukha_d] Wiring idea .
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In another word ....NO.

You STILL need a limited amount of CT100/RG6/whateverCoax for RF
distribution of TV signals. Whilst it is perfectly possible to locate
the
digibox/cablebox at node zero it would not be desireable to lose the
ability
to watch normal Terrestrial TV via the TV's built in tuner. Unless you
wished to add a bank of old VCR's to act as tuners for
BBC1,BBC2,ITV,C4,C5.

Having said that, CAT5 is capable of carrying just about everything
else
except SPEAKER level audio or other High Current/High Voltage signals. It
is
a well specified multipurpose low voltage COMMUNICATIONS  cable.

Keith

-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Mooney [mailto:fm@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 16:01
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Wiring idea


In a word, Yes. You only need 1 Cable medium. The termination of the Cat
5e
at all points is a universal RJ45 Outlet.

Communication from The A/V Hub to the TV is via RJ45 to RJ45 at the
Patch
Panel and an RJ45 flylead from the Cat 5e outlet to the Scart
socket of the TV with a remote control reciever (Sky type mouse) to send
the
signals back to a decoder or any other device which you may
have at Node 0.

Frank

Roger Bilboul wrote:

> Does this means you can use Cat 5 instead of CT100. How do you
terminate
the
> Cat 5 at the TV end?
>
> Roger
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Frank Mooney [mailto:fm@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 23 April 2001 15:04
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Wiring idea
> >
> >
> > A much simpler solution is to flood wire your house in Cat 5e
> > with a minimum of 2 outlets beside every 13 amp power socket
wired back
to
> > Node 0. In your lounge you should wire 4 Cat 5e cables from
> > beside every 13 amp socket.
> >
> > At node 0 you will bring in all of your incoming services,
> > TV/Sat/ISDN/ADSL/PTO services etc. Utilising Patch Panels and
an
> > A/V Hub you can
> > distribute any service to any Cat 5e outlet. Also you can
return
> > devices such as DVD/VCR/Audio System etc from any Cat 5e outlet
back to
> > the A/V Hub and distribute to other Cat 5e outlets.
> >
> > This is the standard being adopted by many developers now that
it
> > is available, So that an item such as the TV can be plugged into
any Cat
> > 5e outlet because the cabling infrastructure is all the same.
> >
> > Frank
> >
> > ewenjc wrote:
> >
> > > 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
> > >
> > >
> > >
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