TheScullster wrote:

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?

I've got a wireless network and then installed a cable network
afterwards. The wireless one is brilliant and ideal for a laptop, but a
cable is so much faster, but that's not all. It's much more versatile
too.

If you've got equipment that works in one fixed position, then cable is
usually the answer, mobile stuff obviously needs wireless.

My wife mentioned that she wanted to be able to hear the HiFi when she
was working in our dining room and it was a doddle to distribute the
audio ( and video too ) over a CAT5 line that was already there. I'm now
thinking of adding more CAT5 lines to each room as I can see so many
uses for them.