Re: Planning Ahead

Actually, we built that house in 98 and moved out in 2004, so it never had a
Media Center in it. If it had, I would have used a wired extender to bring
it to at least the living room.

I don't think any current extenders do pre-N, and have not heard any specs
for the Vista extenders. I'd be a bit surprised if they used pre-N as it's
not quite a standard yet...

If I were to do it all over, I'm not sure if I'd run the cables thru the
attic or not. In 2001 the house was hit by lightning... it entered thru the
roof over the master bedroom and immediately went into the wiring. Fried
network cards and modem cards in all the PCs, as well as frying the TVs thru
the video cables. AC surge supressors worked great, but the damage came thru
the network, video, and phone wiring. Most larger surge supressors these
days include phone and video connections, but network surge supressors are a
bit more expensive (and you need one on each end of a given piece of cable).

Of course, it could have been a fluke, probably will never happen to you
<g>.

Dana Cline - MCE MVP

"Mike R." <MikeR@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks. Your setup sounds great and it's the same idea as what I'm
thinking
of doing. Am I right in assuming that the distribution center itself is
fed
by MCE (via an extender maybe) and it takes care of distribution from
there?

Is there anything you didn't do or forgot to do that you wished you did?

Right now, I just want to get all the wiring in the walls and have them
all
together at some point in the basement. Once that's done, it should be
fairly
straightforward to hook equipment up.

From the looks of the capabilities of the CAT6 cable, that will probably
be
what I'll put in.


"Dana Cline - MVP" wrote:

Cat5e should be fine for what you want, although there's a new cable type
(Cat6?) that includes 2 coax and 2 that can be used for either network or
phone. I'd offer a suggestion based on the house we built in Colorado in
98... Pick a spot (ours was in basement under the stairs) for all the
cables
to terminate. Our phone and cable came into the house, went under the
stairs. Each room had network, 2 video, and phone to all rooms. I had a
video distribution amp there that fed video to all rooms, and a 16-port
network switch that fed network to all rooms (and a phone splitter
punchdown
panel too). The family server and laser jet also resided under the
stairs.
It was a very practical arrangement.

With that second rf cable, I could send video _to_ the distribution
center,
such as from a security camera...you can even send composite video (which
my
cameras output) over a rf cable if you have the right connector...

All cables to the 1st floor went thru the basement ceiling then up into
the
1st floor walls. All cables to the second floor went up to the attic,
then
dropped down into the 2nd floor walls. So it helped that we had a
passage,
about 1 square foot, that went all the way from basement to attic, so we
could run more cables if necessary, or even hot water pipes if we ever
installed solar heat panels on the roof (and big tanks in the basement).

Dana Cline - MCE MVP

"Mike R." <MikeR@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I know that currently there aren't a lot of (if any) HDTV tuners or
extenders
available for MCE, but I'm building a house and want to make sure the
cabling
will be sufficient to handle sending HDTV signals to and extender. Will
CAT5e
cabling have enough capacity, or should I get something 'bigger'? Also,
will
a Linksys WRT54G be enough to handle the signal? Thanks.





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