I'm not much of a home-wiring expert myself. However, when my parents
built their most recent home a few years back, they had the builder
install stiff, plastic conduit throughout the house. It all runs back to
a box in the basement. This makes running any kind of cable easy. I
wired them for Ethernet, and put their DSL modem and switch in the
basement. It was great. They have 3 rooms wired now, and it was trivial
to slip the cat-5e cable through the conduit, instead of laboriously
fishing it through drywall and studs.
The cool part is that you could just as easily use it to run other
cables. If you make the conduit wide enough, you could even run multiple
cables in the same conduit (i.e., cable TV, cat-5e, fiber optic,
closed-circuit security cameras, etc).
I highly recommend it.
--Dave
Michael Brailsford wrote:
I am no A/V guru, but component cables separate the signals better and provide
the best possible quality and resolution. DVI, S-Video and RCA and other
connection technologies run multiple signals in the same wire and the
interference degrades the signals. This is especially true over longer cable
lengths, like those you might find in a home theater room where cables
typically are run the length of the room from the A/V equipment in the back of
the room to the TV/Projector at the front of the room.
As far as wired vs. wireless. I would do both. Install GigE capable wiring,
it will work just fine for 10/100/1000, so you can scale it up in the future as
GigE hardware and network equipment come down in price. As for the wireless,
you can add that anytime. I personally hate the bandwidth restrictions of
wireless, I prefer the higher bandwidth of wired. Just give yourself both
possibilities, so as your tastes change, so can your network.
-Michael
----- Original Message ----
From: Barry Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Provo Linux Users Group Mailing List <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 8:28:47 AM
Subject: Re: Home Automation
On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 06:26 -0700, C. Ed Felt wrote:
Just a few comments on the things I have experience with.
* Is "wired" cheaper than wireless?
Don't know about cost, but wired doesn't suck. My house was built in
1986, so my home LAN is stuck with wireless. Trust me. Wire it.
* Home theater (Computer based of course - mp3, DVD caching to HDD
etc.).
Use HDMI or DVI for video between components and/or display devices.
With dual-link DVI you should be able to handle any resolution for the
foreseeable future. Single-link DVI is enough for 1080p (1920x1080
@60hz), dual link allows at least twice that. Hmm. Does HDMI allow
dual-link, or only single? HDMI<->DVI conversion is easy with $10
cables from newegg.com.
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