Building a new house, what wiring to put in??

[bertie]

Chaps, I do hope I am not asking the obvious but as per thread title, and AV guys out ther can you help me?

I am building a new house and thus have the oppourtunity to easily put in whatever wiring I want.

In particular, I want to distribute music and HD TV round the house to various rooms.

What's the best way to do this?

I friend reckons wire it all in CAT5, and that you need 2 runs to do HD so put 3 runs to every point you might want a TV??

Help!!!!

[VEX]

He is not that far off.

We are currently installing 3x cat6 and 1 or 2 coaxes to every tv point. Then an extra double data (2xcat6s) usually in the opposite corner of the tv point.

For audio it is a but tougher and really depends how your mimic is currently stored and what you want to listen to.

Generally a pair of speaker cables for the ceiling in each room back to either a sub distribution point or the main distribution (node0)

This again is down to the type of system you want to use and that dictates if you need to wire for keypads or not..

Best bet on this side is to find oneof use specialist installers to help you chose a system and then advise you o how to cable for it. Plotloss,eshrew31 (iirc) and myself on ofer this and I am sure I have missed a few out unintentionally.

Hope the helps

V.

[Silverbullet767]

Your friend is correct, 2 CAT5's run into the appropriate converters can stream HD, I'd do 6 runs, its very versitile and it's cheap as chips. You might want 1 or 2 for games consoles and maybe 1 or 2 for a media PC/music streaming/ internet enabled TV etc.... Just be sure that you have the capacity to accept all those cables at 1 location via a large network switch.

Plus the usual speaker cables etc. etc.

[VEX]

Blimey, 6 x cat5s!

My clients prefer to have a video switch at the hub to allow each tv to select and control it's own source.

With the advent of HDbaseT IMO the switching and syncing will become a lot more reliable.

V

[Silverbullet767]

VEX said:

Blimey, 6 x cat5s!

My clients prefer to have a video switch at the hub to allow each tv to select and control it's own source.

With the advent of HDbaseT IMO the switching and syncing will become a lot more reliable.

V

6 leaves plenty of scope for the future, everything needs a bloody internet connection nowadays!

100 meters of the stuff is buttons.

[bertie]

Thanks for the info guys.

Seems plenty of CAT5 is the way forward.

Added twist is that the house is in Portugal!

Would you sugest I try and sort it myself ant tell contractors what to put in or get a local AV company over there to do it?

Any ideas on sources of info or kit??

[manic47]

I've been working on a customers with a CAT8 system all around the house.
You can patch the feeds from the Sky dish directly into any room as well as the required phone line.

Don't know where it came from, but it looks like stuff from here

http://www.singlepointnetworks.co.uk/networkkits.a...

[VEX]

IMHO DO NOT TOUCH THE CAT8 STUFF WITH A BARGE POLE.

I used to have regular battles with people over on AV Forums about the stuff and when you analyse the spec IMO they do not come up a patch on the performance of Coax when used for TV and Satellite.

Cable is expensive
If badly installed then you will end up with nothing better than a CAT5/6 system
Faceplates and connections are a nightmare to install.

Really could not comment using a local installer to the job, maybe approach a couple to see what they think and compare it to what we think.

V.