pnh102
Reptiles Are Cuddly And Pretty
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join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD
 ·Comcast
| Just Use The Real Thing
Cat-5e or Cat-6 cable really isn't that expensive anymore. Monoprice sells it for $93 for 1000 feet. Even though copper prices have gone up, this particular cable is not as expensive as it used to be.
»www.monoprice.com/products/subde···id=10234
You can also get Leviton Quickport Ethernet Jacks for about $5 a pop, and the brackets and wall plates for even cheaper. I've gone through plenty of these as I wired up my house as well as my mom's house for Ethernet connectivity.
The benefit here is that you can get full 1Gbps connectivity within your home and save any existing cable jacks for actual TV signals. Furthermore, as someone who was crazy enough to run RG-6 coax to every room and component cable to a couple of rooms, I can tell anyone who wants to do this that running ethernet cable is much easier than running any form of coax.
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elios
join:2005-11-15
Springfield, MO | yea thats the stuff we used
hell we even got some coax ports and used the clip in face plates and ran coax to every room and it was still less then buying good high end home powerline network stuff |
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ArgMeMatey
join:2001-08-09
Milwaukee, WI | reply to pnh102
I suspect the point about cheapness is regarding existing installations where there would be a labor cost to install new Cat 5 rather than use in-place RG-6.
That is, it's generally cheaper for them to use whatever is already there. |
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pnh102
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join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD
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| said by ArgMeMatey  :That is, it's generally cheaper for them to use whatever is already there. I suppose... in my situation there was neither... I ended up running coax and ethernet jacks to every room, and this was in existing construction.
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pnh102
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join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD | reply to elios
I'd have run fiber if i could have afforded it at the time  |
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ArgMeMatey
join:2001-08-09
Milwaukee, WI
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| said by pnh102 :I'd have run fiber if i could have afforded it at the time Let me throw in a plug here for all the smurf tube manufacturers. My house is full of it for whatever is needed, where ever it is needed. Future fiber is no problem, or as I have said before you can use it for an old-style ship intercom if you want.
Of course, everything will probably be wireless before I need to upgrade from the Cat 4 (What I had laying around) and RG-6 that I have inside the ENT right now.
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pnh102
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join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD
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| said by ArgMeMatey :Let me throw in a plug here for all the smurf tube manufacturers. My house is full of it for whatever is needed, where ever it is needed. I keep kicking myself for not running that... but I always figure that's nothing a Dremel, a handsaw, some spackle and paint cannot fix. 
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cmaenginsb
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join:2001-03-19
Palmdale, CA
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said by pnh102 :said by ArgMeMatey :That is, it's generally cheaper for them to use whatever is already there. I suppose... in my situation there was neither... I ended up running coax and ethernet jacks to every room, and this was in existing construction. Not everyone shares your situation. For example slab poured house and very limited attic access means you would have to open the walls to pull cable. This would require drywall and painting making it cost more than the coax or powerline devices.
Also in terms of the telco, it's cheaper and less liability for a tech to just install a device then spend time pulling cable. |
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