By the way, the conduit is stiff, but flexible. That way there are no 90
degree turns, and you can sometimes even push wire through it all the
way from the rooms to the basement. This is one reason you want the
central box in the basement, so gravity can help you push cables through.
I have used a electricians fishing tape to pull cable through with no
problems at all.
--Dave
Dave Smith wrote:
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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