[TriLUG] Cabling wish list

[David A. Cafaro]

Wish list for my dream home (which I plan on making my next home after
my present townhouse has been outgrown):

Power: Whole house surge protection, whole house UPS, whole house Backup
Generator and Solar Panels.

Cabling:  I would definitely go with conduits which I can run different
cabling through.  I would probably start out with Cat6 and run a good
2-4 cables from top to bottom for wired backbone.  I transfer a lot of
big files around from one computer to another so 100Mbit Full duplex is
a minimum, would probably go for 1Gbit full duplex for the backbone.  I
would also include wireless like I have now for just leisure
web/email/print resources around the house and out on the porch. 
802.11a is out now and that has 56Mbit throughput which is nice, but
still not 100Mbit full.  I would wire all rooms with phone, data, and
coax, and maybe some form of digital audio/video for sharing
entertainment sources.

I definitely would go with a mix of the two.  Wireless is great, but
hurts when sending large files (think ISO images).  Cables handle the
big stuff, but it sucks running a 100" cable out to the porch to surf
the web in the sun.

On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 01:40, Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I want to thank all of you who aren't building houses for putting
> up with the cabling discussion recently.  
> 
> I would, however, like to ask a question of the general list
> readership.  If you were designing your dream house, what
> would you do in regards to cabling.  Several people have
> answered this for themselves already, but I'm also interested
> in hearing from more people as to what they would do.
> 
> Basically, I'm trying to figure out if it's worth going through
> the hassle of getting everything run or if I should just go
> wireless everywhere, *or* if I should do a mix of the two.
> 
> So, if you have an opinion, and haven't expressed it until now
> (or even if you have), feel free to now! :-)
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Tanner
> -- 
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