[Gllug] The netwroked house - a terminal in every room >;)

[honos]

John Hearns wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 18:12 +0000, M.Blackmore wrote:
>  
>
>>One of our Oxluggy number is busy renovating our new house in Charlbury 
>>and we have been discussing what sort of comms wire to run - and how to 
>>put a "terminal" in every room (well, a number of rooms) in the most 
>>economical manner.
>>    
>>
>Regarding the wiring, I would run Cat5 into every room, as many sockets
>as you want.
>I once saw a tiny wiring cabinet intended for the home market,
>which would take both network and telephone traffic over the cat 5
>(you can also do video over cat 5 with baluns).
>The company sold a small hub to fit int he cabinet.
>
>If I find the company I will email - but these cabinets were in things
>like the Misco catalogue at the time.
>
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>
Sorry if this sound silly, but why not using wi-fi? 
No need for cables and depending on the size of the house you might need 
only one hub to serve every room, you are also free to move around you 
machines and don't have to worry about cables going bad/replacing them 
overtime (!)
 



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