Renovation and wifi vs cat
Discussion
I'm going to be fairly busy on here in this forum for next 18 months or so I think. Am embarking on a major renovation / extension of our family home - a 1920s early international style building that's seen better days.
Ffor future proofing I'm looking at wiring in Cat 7 to all th old rooms while I'm stripping the render and channeling the electrics / plumbing in. (Floors even upstairs are all solid concrete with parquet on them so everything needs to go in the walls!
However what's the collective wisdom on Cat 7 in a house build right now? Is cable obsolete? Will everything be wifi in 5 years? Should I bother?
Any thoughts?
Ffor future proofing I'm looking at wiring in Cat 7 to all th old rooms while I'm stripping the render and channeling the electrics / plumbing in. (Floors even upstairs are all solid concrete with parquet on them so everything needs to go in the walls!
However what's the collective wisdom on Cat 7 in a house build right now? Is cable obsolete? Will everything be wifi in 5 years? Should I bother?
Any thoughts?
I'm in tech too, and agree that for serious throughout cable is necesssary, I guess I'm thinking about more home automation and entertainment / web etc etc, more and more of this stuff seems to be wifi / Bluetooth...
Is it really worth putting Cat 5/6/7 cable into bedrooms to take video when more and more we all have personal wifi screens / iPads etc. I'm kind of speccing it and wiring it in myself anyway at this point because I figure it's better to have it and not need it than want to out in after the walls are rendered and there's a parquet floor on top of the concrete...
Are there wifi extender systems ( the house is largely 1920s concrete full of rebar so it's a faraday cage basically - already need wifi repeaters in most rooms..)
Is it really worth putting Cat 5/6/7 cable into bedrooms to take video when more and more we all have personal wifi screens / iPads etc. I'm kind of speccing it and wiring it in myself anyway at this point because I figure it's better to have it and not need it than want to out in after the walls are rendered and there's a parquet floor on top of the concrete...
Are there wifi extender systems ( the house is largely 1920s concrete full of rebar so it's a faraday cage basically - already need wifi repeaters in most rooms..)
Are there wifi extender systems ( the house is largely 1920s concrete full of rebar so it's a faraday cage basically - already need wifi repeaters in most rooms..) that run at higher bandwidth. The uniti system seems to be limited to 10mb, which vs the gb connection on cable will limit things eventually? Not found anything yet...
Edited by mr_tony on Wednesday 20th September 09:17
Accelebrate said:
Look into setting up multiple hard-wired access points, much better than repeaters or extenders. These work well - https://www.ubnt.com/products/#unifi
This is what I have, but it's limited in bandwidth, and the access points are noisy (like crickets!)...Ideally I want something heavier duty..
Yep - pretty well planned out. It's a major project, we've spent 12months on the plans with architects and going through planning for second time before kicking off.
We're chopping 30% off the building (non original badly made 70s extension, and extending). The original 1920s end of the building is what I'm renovating now prior to planning coming through on the extension. Overall it's a huge project, and that's not including the 15x8 garage I've got specified
As such room layouts are well understood as it's existing architecture.
Good point on alarms, hand to figured on cable runs for that in the existing building, better get the claw hammer out again!
Overall I'm just glad you folks are still saying that cable isn't dead.
Right now I've got all my network cables terminating in a netgear FS728 24port switch. I figure I'm going to need way more than 24 ports - so any pointers on how to select the right kind of domestic 48port switch welcome as I'm more a coder by background than an engineer when it comes to networks...
We're chopping 30% off the building (non original badly made 70s extension, and extending). The original 1920s end of the building is what I'm renovating now prior to planning coming through on the extension. Overall it's a huge project, and that's not including the 15x8 garage I've got specified
As such room layouts are well understood as it's existing architecture.
Good point on alarms, hand to figured on cable runs for that in the existing building, better get the claw hammer out again!
Overall I'm just glad you folks are still saying that cable isn't dead.
Right now I've got all my network cables terminating in a netgear FS728 24port switch. I figure I'm going to need way more than 24 ports - so any pointers on how to select the right kind of domestic 48port switch welcome as I'm more a coder by background than an engineer when it comes to networks...
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