Minjin
Flashlight Enthusiast
I just finished rewiring my entire house from old knob and tube to new non-metallic (pulled out ancient cable and telephone wires at same time). Wasn't too terribly bad of a job. At the same time, I decided to future proof it a little bit and ran some new cable and cat5e (for use as data AND phone). I have a computer room and four other rooms that I want to distribute to. So, I ran a single RG6 (I have no need to share video in-house) and two cat5e's to each of these rooms. I was going to run a cat5e and a cat3, but I figured its only a few more dollars so I might as well run the good stuff.
Now here's what I need to do. I want to distribute cable to each of these rooms with the computer room getting the least drop. So how would I split it? I'm thinking 3 way splitter and take the low db drop to the comp room. So that leaves two outputs and four rooms to deal with yet. Run another 3 way? So I'd have comp room with least db drop, then one with a little bit more, then another with a bit more, and the last two with three db chunks taken out of them. Hopefully, that'll still be enough signal. I think I have this stuff down, but if there are any comments or suggestions, please make them.
Where I am fuzzy is with the networking and phone. At the moment, I have no intention of signing up for phone service with my local provider. However, I've considered getting VOIP so I'd like to plan ahead. What the best way to distribute this? I've gone to home depot and stared at all their home networking stuff made by Leviton but I'm not sure what I'm doing. I'm fine when it comes to routers and hubs and such, but I'm not so confident with the circuit boards and distribution panels at HD. I think I might run another cat5e to my computer room so that I can keep my cable modem in there and put my router in the closet. I would use one cat5e to take the output of the cable modem from the comp room to the closet and my router, and from there, everywhere else. I dun know. Any ideas guys? I know I've rambled on a bit, but I'm not sure what to do. I know I don't need all of this right now, but I'm trying to plan ahead before I start closing up walls.
Thanks.
Mark
Now here's what I need to do. I want to distribute cable to each of these rooms with the computer room getting the least drop. So how would I split it? I'm thinking 3 way splitter and take the low db drop to the comp room. So that leaves two outputs and four rooms to deal with yet. Run another 3 way? So I'd have comp room with least db drop, then one with a little bit more, then another with a bit more, and the last two with three db chunks taken out of them. Hopefully, that'll still be enough signal. I think I have this stuff down, but if there are any comments or suggestions, please make them.
Where I am fuzzy is with the networking and phone. At the moment, I have no intention of signing up for phone service with my local provider. However, I've considered getting VOIP so I'd like to plan ahead. What the best way to distribute this? I've gone to home depot and stared at all their home networking stuff made by Leviton but I'm not sure what I'm doing. I'm fine when it comes to routers and hubs and such, but I'm not so confident with the circuit boards and distribution panels at HD. I think I might run another cat5e to my computer room so that I can keep my cable modem in there and put my router in the closet. I would use one cat5e to take the output of the cable modem from the comp room to the closet and my router, and from there, everywhere else. I dun know. Any ideas guys? I know I've rambled on a bit, but I'm not sure what to do. I know I don't need all of this right now, but I'm trying to plan ahead before I start closing up walls.
Thanks.
Mark