On 24/05/16 00:27, Tim Lamb wrote:
In message , Michael Chare
writes
On 23/05/2016 18:42, Tim Lamb wrote:
Now the data connection thread has moved to the willy waving phase;-),
can someone kindly condense the advice (farmer level) to what is
required to future proof my Internet needs? Should I be laying in ducts
and cabling? If so, what?

Located in a rural lane, about 1 mile as the cables run to the exchange.
Fibre unlikely for 9 houses over 800m from the nearest cabinet.

Currently none of our TVs are connected to the Internet although they
have the facility. Devolo and wifi meet the i -pad, lap top, PC use but
I suspect will prove inadequate eventually.

Any thoughts?

Try posting in this forum:

http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/fibre.html

Huh!
I succeeded in confusing myself by simply googling cat5e.

A gentleman from America was explaining how he had run 4 cables to each
place he was likely to have a TV.

This could easily be 4 sites here plus the PC in the office. Do I really
need 18 separate cables?

I would run a satellite cable (75ohm quality coax) to everywhere you
will need TV/radio/satellite, or, if you use both terrestrial AND
satellite, two. You can mux both signals down it - and indeed FM radio -
but its hard work.

Then add at least one cat 5 cable.
In extremis, you can add local switches to get more ports on the cat 5,
and if that's gigabit back to the main hub, having several;
conversations down one cable shouldn't slow you down much


The satellite/TV/radio cables you feed from a distribution amp. I had
one that happily took a VHF aerial and TV aerial and fed about 12 cables
to the house wiring.

It proved to be reasonably possible to do evil things with the coax,
like dasy chaining sockets off it for 'TV here...FM tuner there' without
it being too bad on reflection, mainly because the distribution amp at
least provided proper termination.

You can run tow 100Mnps channels down one CAT5 cable or one 100Mbps and
a phone...but its a bodge.

Wire is cheap, so lay in plenty. The big problem is then what to do with
unused bits. Sometimes leaving them coiled up in the back box is sane.
Or if you have hollow stud walls, coiled up in there.

Document everything.








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