I'm meeting an electrician this week to discuss the wiring at my new place and was wondering, would it be a good idea to have him wire in some broadband access in different rooms so I don't have to rely on wireless. For example a couple of ethernet sockets under the TV in the living room for the consoles that runs through to two in the study I can connect to the router there. How do people do things like this these days? What do we need, standard cat5 shizzle?
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Yep, run some cat5 and you can buy standard size sockets which look much like a phone socket. Don't get bumped on the price as Cat5 is cheap. -
You'd probably use CAT6, which is almost exactly the same as CAT5, but rated for higher performance (and which is recommended for gigabit).
If I were wiring a house I'd have the phone come into a cupboard somewhere (in the hall, under the stairs) and then have all the CAT6 sockets in the house return to there, too. That way you can put your router &/or a hub in there and everything is out of the way.
To be honest I probably wouldn't bother for just one or two network sockets - you'll probably just find yourself wanting to move the hub in a year or two, put your computer in a different room or move your Xbox to the other side of the living room.Comment
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just use youre power cables as a network with some of these http://www.ebuyer.com/product/106825. got 4 of these around the house, never had a problem and no extra wires.Comment
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