[lug] OT: Wiring recommendations?

[Elyse Grasso]

Doing stuff with the baseboards would work for the one speaker wire in the 
wall that cantilevers out past the basement wall. But most of the other 
wiring has doorways in the way. I'm really hoping that in most places it will 
be possible to pull the new phone and network cables into the walls while 
pulling the old phone wiring out of the walls.

We use wireless networks at work, and I must say I'm not terribly impressed 
by the throughput or the reliability we've seen: our training lab network 
died twice during a class we were teaching last week (possibly interference 
from equipment in the doctor's office next door?) which was very embarassing 
and annoying. Anyway, I'm already equipped and connected for a wired lan at 
home (just with exposed cables) and I'm spoiled by the connection speeds.

On Monday 18 March 2002 07:56 pm, you wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 10:45:22AM -0700, Elyse Grasso wrote:
> >1) replace old non-standard phone wiring with decent stuff, replace wall 
jacks
> >2) add phone jacks in a few places that don't have them
> >3) put home theater speaker wires inside the walls, so I can stop tripping 
on 
> >them
> 
> We ran a bunch of wire around our place, and what we ended up doing is
> pulling off the baseboards and routing out a channel behind them, then
> running the cable in them.  Then punch a hole in the gyprock where we
> want a jack and use a remodeling box to make it all look really nice.
> 
> They have these cable management systems that are plastic moldings that you
> can mount on the wall and run cable through.  They're nice and cheap and
> let you run new cables at any time.
> 
> >4) cable the house with cat5e, so I can stop tripping on network cables
> 
> How about 802.11b wireless?  Before I got wireless, I thought it would just
> be a neat toy.  Now I can't imagine living without it...
> 
> Sean
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