Mine's a rental, so... I have a cat-5 running along the baseboards in the den. I split it, (stick 4 wires in one connector, 4 in another) and it's half phone line to my DSL modem.
On 4/25/07, James Kuhns <james at kuhns-la.com> wrote: > I noticed that within 30-45 minutes there were 5 or 6 posts to micheal's > request for info on cat 5 cabling. > > I know this is a technical user group, but it surprised me that so many > people responded so quick and it got me wondering... How "wired" are all of > our houses? I know a lot of us do cabling or have done it as a job, but I'm > talking about at home. > > For instance, at my house I have an open closet in my office where I try to > terminate everything. This closet has a box for cable and phone termination > with conduit running through the ceiling to the attic. It also has a home > made rack system. Behind the rack is a 12 port Leviton Quickport plate that > has power for the satellite switch in the attic, cable coming in for the > modem, phone going out to the punch down block in the box, and various ports > for network distribution. > > I went to a resturant supply house and bought a 24"x36"x70" wire/post shelf > system with four shelves and locking casters (much cheaper than the same > shelf system labeled for a server room). It makes a pretty good make-shift > rack for home. There is enough room for eight mini/mid towers on two > shelves, the top shelf is for storage and the cable modem and one shelf has > the power strips and monitor. I put a 2200 APC UPS on the floor to the side > of the rack, ran a dedicated 20A circuit into the closet for the UPS, and > fed the rack power strips off of the UPS. I went to Home Depot and bought > some flat, angle, and tube aluminum and made various mounts for my switches > and KVM and hung them under the shelves using fender washers and carriage > bolts. Granted there are no fancy races for the cabling but velcro strips > and zip-ties work great to keep it neat. > > Every room in the house has at least one network connection (not to mention > the wireless which covers the entire house - haven't found a dead spot yet). > The wiring closet was in the wrong part of the house for the wireless to > work correctly so I moved the wireless router to the living room > entertainment center and put the antenna in the attic. > > All of our DVDs are being ripped to a server which is accessed via media PCs > through out the house. When it came time to put the one in the master > bedroom, the noise was pretty annoying at night so I'm now running more > twisted pair for remote IR and AV over Cat 5 so I can move the satellite box > and media pc into the wiring closet. The installation looked so tidy with > nothing but a TV in the room that the project's been expanded to move the > equipment out of the spare bedroom also. > > There are satellite, cable and phone drops behind the tvs in the living > room, master beedroom, spare bedroom, and my office. > > Am I weird or does everyone do these kinds of things :-) > > James > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
