Home network advice
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I am in the process of renovating our house and would like to install a home network I am a novice with AV and networking and thought I would post my plan and hopefully receive some feedback on the best way to proceed.
My existing kit is:
Sky + in lounge with TV etc
wireless broadband and sonos connect in hall by BT feed
play 1 in dining room and kitchen
sones amp and ceiling speakers in newly fitted upstairs bathroom, amp located in the loft
also an aerial in the loft that I have never used that feeds the lounge
The houses is a 3 bedroom house
My plan is to run network cable from under the stairs to all rooms and relocate the equipment in the hall to under the stairs. I will run 4 cat6 to each room minimum and more to the lounge TV location. As I understand this will provide me with internet to these points using the correct network hardware and if I located a nasdrive there in the future this could utilise the network.
Where I am struggling is on the TV side of things we currently have sky+ in the lounge and would like this in our bedroom and the capability to add TV's to the other bedrooms in the future. I have read about HDMI to cat6 adaptors to send the video signal but I don't quite how I would do this. Would I send the sky feed from the lounge via a the HDMI/cat6 adaptor to the under stairs cupboard then send that signal to various rooms? I have also read that at each TV point you should have a coax cable for TV is this a better way of installing TV?
I plan to start run the cable myself and will get someone in to configure I just want to be sure I have pulled enough cables and to the right places, I need to start pulling cable this weekend before having it plastered in a few weeks.
All advice and tips would be greatly appreciated
My existing kit is:
Sky + in lounge with TV etc
wireless broadband and sonos connect in hall by BT feed
play 1 in dining room and kitchen
sones amp and ceiling speakers in newly fitted upstairs bathroom, amp located in the loft
also an aerial in the loft that I have never used that feeds the lounge
The houses is a 3 bedroom house
My plan is to run network cable from under the stairs to all rooms and relocate the equipment in the hall to under the stairs. I will run 4 cat6 to each room minimum and more to the lounge TV location. As I understand this will provide me with internet to these points using the correct network hardware and if I located a nasdrive there in the future this could utilise the network.
Where I am struggling is on the TV side of things we currently have sky+ in the lounge and would like this in our bedroom and the capability to add TV's to the other bedrooms in the future. I have read about HDMI to cat6 adaptors to send the video signal but I don't quite how I would do this. Would I send the sky feed from the lounge via a the HDMI/cat6 adaptor to the under stairs cupboard then send that signal to various rooms? I have also read that at each TV point you should have a coax cable for TV is this a better way of installing TV?
I plan to start run the cable myself and will get someone in to configure I just want to be sure I have pulled enough cables and to the right places, I need to start pulling cable this weekend before having it plastered in a few weeks.
All advice and tips would be greatly appreciated
Thank you for all of your replies and I will try to answer your questions.
I had planned to get someone with experience of Cat6 to perform the terminations once I have pulled the cables I am aware I need to be careful when pulling the cable but I will have all of the floorboards up so it should limit the danger of trapping a cable and damaging it I hope.
For now if I could watch TV in the master bedroom and the lounge that be ok and use a magic eye to change channel.
Having read your ideas regarding coax I went and bought some and plane to run some to locations I would want a tv in the future i.e. the other to bedrooms. There is an existing aerial that I can connect them all to when required and this could do freeview in the future for kids rooms.
I haven't really set a budget which is probably dangerous and a mistake at this stage I would like to get the basics right so that I can then add to it, things like nasdrive under the stairs for all media
I had planned to get someone with experience of Cat6 to perform the terminations once I have pulled the cables I am aware I need to be careful when pulling the cable but I will have all of the floorboards up so it should limit the danger of trapping a cable and damaging it I hope.
For now if I could watch TV in the master bedroom and the lounge that be ok and use a magic eye to change channel.
Having read your ideas regarding coax I went and bought some and plane to run some to locations I would want a tv in the future i.e. the other to bedrooms. There is an existing aerial that I can connect them all to when required and this could do freeview in the future for kids rooms.
I haven't really set a budget which is probably dangerous and a mistake at this stage I would like to get the basics right so that I can then add to it, things like nasdrive under the stairs for all media
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