osx-addict
06-08-07, 07:04 PM
Hi all..
Our contractor just started doing demolition work on the house (we're adding ~1kSF, including 1 bed, 1 bath). Anyway, I'm planning on running a bunch of home run style cables from various points in the house to the garage where I'm planning on having some sort of rack-style patch-board to accept all of the cables and do stuff with them -- depending on what they are. I was talking w/ a DirecTV installer yesterday and he suggested using the flexible conduit to future-proof the house and also suggested running 6 cables (RG6?) from the HD dish to the garage and ~4-5 RG6 (or better) from the garage to each place a TV will be at. This way if a cable goes bad you've got a redundant one (or two).. Perhaps that's not needed if you're using the conduit? (you could just pull another one?). Anyway, a few general questions remain:
What sort of cable to use for HD satellite signals?
I'm planning on using CAT5e from all rooms to the garage patch panel -- should I bother with CAT6 or is 5e good enough for now for Gigabit ethernet?
What sort of patch panel can I use to take all of these orange flexible conduit "pipes" and neatly organize them to their intended function?
One of the things I'd like to have as part of my garage "distrubition" center is some gigabit ethernet equipment (e.g. gigabit switch among others, wifi,etc), so a small rack would be good -- wall mount preferably.. However, I didn't see a wall mount rack that looks like it can take the conduit..
Also -- is there some rhyme or reason to picking out the conduit size for certain things -- obviously I'm guessing that you want room to allow the cables freedom to move -- for speaker wires (where only 1 wire goes from a receiver to the speaker), I'm assuming the smallest 3/4" is fine.. What about 2-3 RG6 or equiv plus a CAT5e -- is the 1" better for that? Anyway, just trying to get my ducks lined up since my time to figure this out will be disappearing quick once framing starts. MTIA!
Our contractor just started doing demolition work on the house (we're adding ~1kSF, including 1 bed, 1 bath). Anyway, I'm planning on running a bunch of home run style cables from various points in the house to the garage where I'm planning on having some sort of rack-style patch-board to accept all of the cables and do stuff with them -- depending on what they are. I was talking w/ a DirecTV installer yesterday and he suggested using the flexible conduit to future-proof the house and also suggested running 6 cables (RG6?) from the HD dish to the garage and ~4-5 RG6 (or better) from the garage to each place a TV will be at. This way if a cable goes bad you've got a redundant one (or two).. Perhaps that's not needed if you're using the conduit? (you could just pull another one?). Anyway, a few general questions remain:
What sort of cable to use for HD satellite signals?
I'm planning on using CAT5e from all rooms to the garage patch panel -- should I bother with CAT6 or is 5e good enough for now for Gigabit ethernet?
What sort of patch panel can I use to take all of these orange flexible conduit "pipes" and neatly organize them to their intended function?
One of the things I'd like to have as part of my garage "distrubition" center is some gigabit ethernet equipment (e.g. gigabit switch among others, wifi,etc), so a small rack would be good -- wall mount preferably.. However, I didn't see a wall mount rack that looks like it can take the conduit..
Also -- is there some rhyme or reason to picking out the conduit size for certain things -- obviously I'm guessing that you want room to allow the cables freedom to move -- for speaker wires (where only 1 wire goes from a receiver to the speaker), I'm assuming the smallest 3/4" is fine.. What about 2-3 RG6 or equiv plus a CAT5e -- is the 1" better for that? Anyway, just trying to get my ducks lined up since my time to figure this out will be disappearing quick once framing starts. MTIA!