Hello,
I'm hoping some of you experts can help me out as this is all new to me .
I'm in the position of purchasing a new house, the house needs a full electrical rewire so i thought it would be a good time to put some cable in to distribute the Audio & Video from the lounge around the house etc..
I've done a bit of research and it seems like CAT5 is the most effective and cost efficient system to use within my small budget, correct??
I've been looking at the bluedelta milestone system http://www.bluedelta.co.uk/milestone_system.htm
as well as Madnat
and Kat5
They all seem very similar to.
I'm thinking of running cat5 cable to most rooms just for AV at the moment but putting extra cables in to future proof a little, as you can see in the pics:-
4 cat5 to the Master Bedroom,
4 cat5 to Bedroom 2,
4 cat5 to Bedroom 3,
4 cat5 to the Bathroom, - Just want audio to ceiling speakers ATM.
4 cat5 to the Kitchen,
4 cat5 to the Dining Room,
4 cat5 to the Garage,
4 cat5 for CCTV, - No idea how this is going to work, maybe 3 cams?
8 cat5 to the Lounge, - As this is the main source area.
Does this amount sound ok? These would all go to faceplates in each room and then to the tv via scart, expect the bathrooms faceplate would be left in the loft above it.
As you can see from the loft diagram, ive decided that the loft would be a good place for all the cables to meet and be distributed around, but please advise?!? I've no idea how to wire networks so I’m assuming all the face plates from each room will meet in the loft in a big switch which is sourced from the lounge tv via CAT5???
I'd really appreciate it if you could all sanity check and look what i'm doing, just so i know that i'm doing everything correctly and the best way from your experiences.
I’ve redone my design (see attached pics) following from some advice. So each room has 4 cat5’s and the lounge has 8.
I’ve also been recommended to put aerial cable (ct100) to every room and a return feed from the lounge as well to a loft box.
As you can see I’ve drawn in the wiring for the loftbox ok, but I’ve no idea how a patch panel would be wired, like this 48 port one below.
What goes where? ! ?
What is the best way to get all my Sources onto the cat5 network?
I was initially thinking of connecting to cat5 from the scart off the back of the LCD tv in the lounge as that would be fed directly but mainly from the AV amp. But i'd have to have the lounge TV on at all times to view in the other room?!
I'm getting a bit confussed with all this now. I know how many cables i need and want but not idea how they all talk to each other and what i can and cant watch in each room.
Thanks very much for all your help so far.
Paul
I'm hoping some of you experts can help me out as this is all new to me .
I'm in the position of purchasing a new house, the house needs a full electrical rewire so i thought it would be a good time to put some cable in to distribute the Audio & Video from the lounge around the house etc..
I've done a bit of research and it seems like CAT5 is the most effective and cost efficient system to use within my small budget, correct??
I've been looking at the bluedelta milestone system http://www.bluedelta.co.uk/milestone_system.htm
as well as Madnat
and Kat5
They all seem very similar to.
I'm thinking of running cat5 cable to most rooms just for AV at the moment but putting extra cables in to future proof a little, as you can see in the pics:-
4 cat5 to the Master Bedroom,
4 cat5 to Bedroom 2,
4 cat5 to Bedroom 3,
4 cat5 to the Bathroom, - Just want audio to ceiling speakers ATM.
4 cat5 to the Kitchen,
4 cat5 to the Dining Room,
4 cat5 to the Garage,
4 cat5 for CCTV, - No idea how this is going to work, maybe 3 cams?
8 cat5 to the Lounge, - As this is the main source area.
Does this amount sound ok? These would all go to faceplates in each room and then to the tv via scart, expect the bathrooms faceplate would be left in the loft above it.
As you can see from the loft diagram, ive decided that the loft would be a good place for all the cables to meet and be distributed around, but please advise?!? I've no idea how to wire networks so I’m assuming all the face plates from each room will meet in the loft in a big switch which is sourced from the lounge tv via CAT5???
I'd really appreciate it if you could all sanity check and look what i'm doing, just so i know that i'm doing everything correctly and the best way from your experiences.
I’ve redone my design (see attached pics) following from some advice. So each room has 4 cat5’s and the lounge has 8.
I’ve also been recommended to put aerial cable (ct100) to every room and a return feed from the lounge as well to a loft box.
As you can see I’ve drawn in the wiring for the loftbox ok, but I’ve no idea how a patch panel would be wired, like this 48 port one below.
What goes where? ! ?
What is the best way to get all my Sources onto the cat5 network?
I was initially thinking of connecting to cat5 from the scart off the back of the LCD tv in the lounge as that would be fed directly but mainly from the AV amp. But i'd have to have the lounge TV on at all times to view in the other room?!
I'm getting a bit confussed with all this now. I know how many cables i need and want but not idea how they all talk to each other and what i can and cant watch in each room.
Thanks very much for all your help so far.
Paul
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