Wired with cat6
Discussion
I am in the process of wiring my lounge and two bedrooms with cat6 cables, this is not a subject I'm familiar with but as I'm fitting a few sockets and my geek friend has recently done his home I thought I would leap upon the bandwagon so to speak, they will all terminate in my under stairs cupboard and plug into my bt home hub initially for downloading faster and my smart tv's but I am aware their is so much more I can do with them and not sure exactly what.
Most places I have looked seem to advise running 3 cat 6 cables to every outlet(I'm having a study and kitchen built later in the year so will also run cables for that). I was pointed to some hdmi routing types equipment that would allow me to put my freeview/sky box, ps3 etc under the stairs and route it through the cat6 that was £1000 for 4 in and 4 out and wondered if there were any cheaper alternatives to this? I also want to run 2 CCTV cameras that I can view from any screen at the same time and wondered if the cat6 would be used instead of the "phono" type jacks the cameras come with? Basicly I'm just after some advice and ideas as to what to with it and how? Routing the cables etc isn't a problem as the floorboards have to come up anyway for the new mains sockets to be installed but I would hate to get plastered and painted then realise I had missed something out
Most places I have looked seem to advise running 3 cat 6 cables to every outlet(I'm having a study and kitchen built later in the year so will also run cables for that). I was pointed to some hdmi routing types equipment that would allow me to put my freeview/sky box, ps3 etc under the stairs and route it through the cat6 that was £1000 for 4 in and 4 out and wondered if there were any cheaper alternatives to this? I also want to run 2 CCTV cameras that I can view from any screen at the same time and wondered if the cat6 would be used instead of the "phono" type jacks the cameras come with? Basicly I'm just after some advice and ideas as to what to with it and how? Routing the cables etc isn't a problem as the floorboards have to come up anyway for the new mains sockets to be installed but I would hate to get plastered and painted then realise I had missed something out
you could use something like:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Neet%C2%AE-Extender-networ...
personally, put cat6 where you want and 2/3 each room, take everything back to the patch panel and then if you have a NAS/server you can serve your media up to the network but keep sat box, ps3 near the tv its just easier
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Neet%C2%AE-Extender-networ...
personally, put cat6 where you want and 2/3 each room, take everything back to the patch panel and then if you have a NAS/server you can serve your media up to the network but keep sat box, ps3 near the tv its just easier
At the risk of sounding Stoopid what does the hdmi extender do? Is it to convert from the rj45 plug on the cat six cable to an hdmi output? And I understand what a server is and does but NAS? Is this so I can put a hard drive up under the stairs and watch whatever is on it in HD at the other end through the extender?
NAS = Network attached storage
eg: hdd(s) attached to network via wi-fi or better by cat6 to stream films, tv, music to tv - some tv's have dlna ability
you dont need an hdmi extender to watch films, tv and music on your tv - you need a DLNA enabled TV or a DLNA enabled streamer - then just connect the NAS (or server) to your TV preferably by wired cat6/5e and watch away. Lots of NASs have DLNA built in such as: https://www.synology.com/en-uk/products/DS214se
(i dont have one of these but they seem well recommended)
Be careful as you can not stream the likes of Sky using DLNA services, which is why you may need HDMI extenders.
You are right, these little devices convert the HDMI into a signal capable of travelling down a CAT5/6 cable and then converts them back again at the other end. Different manufacturers do it different ways but I tend to stick to HDBaseT system for reliability.
HTH.
V.
You are right, these little devices convert the HDMI into a signal capable of travelling down a CAT5/6 cable and then converts them back again at the other end. Different manufacturers do it different ways but I tend to stick to HDBaseT system for reliability.
HTH.
V.
Possibly, but it would be a suck it and see situation with DNLA streaming from a NAS drive.
Depending on the age of the smart screens will also depend on the smart functions and capabilities of the screens. I had a nightmare with Tonker's (See his build diary here) with panasonic and toshiba screens not holding onto thier network connections.
Ended up being three different issues, Tosh tv being crap, knackered BT Router not being able to handle the nunmber of connections and the knackered managed switch.
V.
Depending on the age of the smart screens will also depend on the smart functions and capabilities of the screens. I had a nightmare with Tonker's (See his build diary here) with panasonic and toshiba screens not holding onto thier network connections.
Ended up being three different issues, Tosh tv being crap, knackered BT Router not being able to handle the nunmber of connections and the knackered managed switch.
V.
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