Re: Re: To Run Fibre or To Not Run Fibre

["Stuart Grimshaw" <stuart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Unfortunatly David, I don't think you are going to get a definitive answer
to this one :-)

My personal approach would be to go with cat5e, and if you can afford it
go for fibre to future proof the house, _IF_ you plan on being there for
10/15 years or more.

If you look at the market over the past 10/15 years and see how much data
is being thrown now compared to even just 5 years ago, you could argue
that fibre will be needed to support the latest & greatest codecs,
media
players and internet connections (who's to say what speed ISP's will be
chucking at you 10/15 years from now), but on the other hand if you look
at how compression has improved over the same time period you could argue
that fibre won't be needed because compression has gotten so good you can
fit it all down existing cables.

What are you planning on having in each room? That will play a major part
in your decision also.

Which ever way you go, just make sure you make it easy to pull new cable
to each location without too much effort.

On Sat, 29 May 2004 08:30:40 +0100, Phil Harris <phil@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> Would you really go CAT6 Chris? CAT5E supports Gigabit and - to be
> honest -
> how many people who would be chucking CAT5/6 into their own houses
would
> actually observe the proper bend radiusses, pulling tensions etc. to
> even do
> the job properly with CAT5 let alone CAT6? (I wouldn't / haven't /
> didn't.)
>
> My opinion is that CAT6 is an unnecessary expense ... CAT5E should be
> more
> than enough and much cheaper per box.
>
> However I wholeheartedly agree that fibre is unneccessary unless you
> actually have a *NEED* for a particular useage of fibre.