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re: If you were (or are) building a house today, would you run COAX or speaker wire?
Posted on 12/10/24 at 9:43 pm to baseballmind1212
Posted on 12/10/24 at 9:43 pm to baseballmind1212
Cat6 is already outdated. If it can’t fully support today’s latest residential networking equipment, how will it fare in 10-20 years?
It won’t even reliably support what ISPs around here are already offering, much less a modern home network.
It won’t even reliably support what ISPs around here are already offering, much less a modern home network.
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Posted on 12/11/24 at 8:14 am to Dallaswho
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If it can’t fully support today’s latest residential networking equipment, how will it fare in 10-20 years?
Please. OP is clearly not building a LAN party house with multi-gig going to multiple rooms from the server room with 12-18 racked 4U workstations with the latest GPUs in them.
You sound like you're spouting the Frisco/Prosper line of BS that defines Keeping up with the Jones'. Four wheels aren't good enough for a golf cart for a family of four! It's gotta have six independently steered wheels with self driving capability!
Posted on 12/11/24 at 8:41 am to LemmyLives
Not spouting that at all. We’re still at single gigabit and WiFi6 but as of a year or two ago, 5-7gbps is getting pretty standard. It will soon enable things we simply don’t do today.
Houses last a long time. Mine is architecturally set up for one of those old school wood-look, floor-standing big screen TVs circa Y2K and while we made the area look nice, I wish it were different.
Houses last a long time. Mine is architecturally set up for one of those old school wood-look, floor-standing big screen TVs circa Y2K and while we made the area look nice, I wish it were different.
This post was edited on 12/11/24 at 8:58 am
Posted on 12/11/24 at 10:47 am to Will Cover
Id focus more on making sure the installation is very easy to upgrade. Conduit where it is needed, bulkhead connectors, etc.
Whatever you do will be outdated soon, so make it modular and easy to rip out and replace with whatever the next new superconductor stuff is.
Whatever you do will be outdated soon, so make it modular and easy to rip out and replace with whatever the next new superconductor stuff is.
Posted on 12/11/24 at 11:35 am to baseballmind1212
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, 2 drops at each tv (1 for tv, 1 for gaming system, apple tv/ps5 whatever).
i'd stick with one and buy a cheap switch if needed because its likely going to be more than just one device. off the top of my head, in my tv room i have ethernet requirements for:
- sonos 'bridge' (to create sonos net from soundbar)
- tv
- xbox
- virtual pinball machine
- hd homerun
- retropie arcade cabinet
the ethernet-hungry device list grows much faster than you think..
Posted on 12/11/24 at 11:50 am to CAD703X
I built my house just after Katrina, ran 3/4" pvc conduit. I left strings in them and used cover plates to hide. I have pulled and changed out multiple lines at entertainment spots and made a run to my electronics closet. It is cheap. For $300/$400 dollars, you can have the ability to always upgrade. I have an antenna outside and streaming on everything else. Having wired speakers does limit you on set up/upgrades, etc.
Posted on 12/19/24 at 4:33 pm to Will Cover
run smurf conduit into the attic several places per room, then you can run phone wire, speaker wire, cat(x), coax, or even 120v as needed in the future.
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