"TheScullster" wrote in message
. uk...
Hi all

Just a general enquiry really.
Noticed on posts for data/sky/tv cabling that people were still advocating
installation of network and phone cabling.
This is obviously at odds to the current hype wireless
networking/broadband etc.
I have already installed cat 5 and phone lines to most rooms, but am
beginning to think that technology has overtaken this.

Apart from the security issues with wireless broadband, can anyone support
the case for putting in a wired home network and phone system?

TIA

Phil

Coincidently I just read a review of a wireless media streamer, capable of
streaming HD video from a PC to a TV
(http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/01...gital_eva700/). It
noted that

'if you're looking to push HD through the device, you're probably better off
sticking to the wired link. With an un-congested 802.11g network and the
wind behind it, it'll just about cope with HD over wireless, but if anyone
else is using the connection, then dropped frames and blocky pictures could
ensue.'

That seems a reasonable endorsment of the need for cables. I personally
think of wireless vs wires like a helicopter vs a road - take the helicopter
to get a light load to the bottom of the garden, take the road when you want
to move a few tonnes cheaply.

Andy