The Natural Philosopher wrote:
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.








Yes, it's also possible to get away with a system where the
outputs, feed back after remote amplification and combining into the
input amplifier. As said, DOCUMENT EVERYTHING, there's nothing worse
than looking into a tangle of wires you did 20yrs ago and wasting days
redocumenting from those wires.

I have found that a cheap rf modulator makes a good signal
generator:-


https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

and this is the best detector I have found:-


https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Mapping the signal strengths has proved to be a good idea when
fault finding. I have provided both up and down feeds at most TV
outlet positions, this allows the various PVRs/cctcv to be viewed at any
outlet point.