[TriLUG] Question about wiring a new home with Cat6/e

[Jim Wright]

OlsonE at aosa.army.mil wrote:

>   - About how much would I need for the home? Ideally, I'd like to have a
> jack in each room (bedroom / office / living / kitchen -- for a total of 8
> rooms)

When I built a house a few years back, I had 3 runs of Cat5 put in to 
each room.  One was terminated with RJ11 for phone, and the other two 
were RJ45...it was nice having the flexibility of those three lines 
coming in to each room...I miss it now that I have moved into an 
existing house that had no decent wiring of any kind put in.  I would 
check to see if whoever your contractor uses for phone does data as 
well...back when I built my house, those guys generally didn't have a 
clue...but I think most do now.  I got one of the network guys from RTI 
who does stuff on the side to come in right before the sheetrock went 
up.  At the time, I think it only cost my a few hundred dollars, 
including materials.