Tade
Novice Member
Hello,
I'm hoping to get advise from some of you tech-savvy people, if possible...
We're soon to get our whole house rewired. Besides the standard plug sockets and light switches, I want to consider what other cables we should ask the electrician to run at the same time, before plasterer comes.
My thought is to have two Cat6 cables running to most rooms, e.g. kitchen, 3 bedrooms, and dining room. And 4 Cat6 cables running to the TV area in the lounge. All these cables would run back to a cupboard under the stairs (Node Zero - I think people call this?). This cupboard will have the Virgin router, and phone point. It also houses the consumer unit.
Does this seem adequate? I had wondered about also running co-axial cable or possibly getting Virgin to run cables to the TV area, before plasterer comes. However, I'm not convinced that we need dedicated virgin or coaxial TV feeds. Surely, using Cat6 cables and Virgin's fibre-optic broadband we can just use Internet based services like Netflix for streaming TV?
Unless there's something I've overlooked, Cat6 is all we need?
Any thoughts or advise would be much appreciated
Many thanks
Tade
I'm hoping to get advise from some of you tech-savvy people, if possible...
We're soon to get our whole house rewired. Besides the standard plug sockets and light switches, I want to consider what other cables we should ask the electrician to run at the same time, before plasterer comes.
My thought is to have two Cat6 cables running to most rooms, e.g. kitchen, 3 bedrooms, and dining room. And 4 Cat6 cables running to the TV area in the lounge. All these cables would run back to a cupboard under the stairs (Node Zero - I think people call this?). This cupboard will have the Virgin router, and phone point. It also houses the consumer unit.
Does this seem adequate? I had wondered about also running co-axial cable or possibly getting Virgin to run cables to the TV area, before plasterer comes. However, I'm not convinced that we need dedicated virgin or coaxial TV feeds. Surely, using Cat6 cables and Virgin's fibre-optic broadband we can just use Internet based services like Netflix for streaming TV?
Unless there's something I've overlooked, Cat6 is all we need?
Any thoughts or advise would be much appreciated
Many thanks
Tade