"flood the house with cable"

[anonymous-user]

I often see this in the various threads on here and it's now become relevent to my own home.

I have my BT Engineer friend coming tonight to replace the very old wires which lead to the connection point. I plan on also getting him to do the following

Moving the connection point to nearer my tv and laptop etc, changing this to an ADSL socket so that I don't need to use a filter on this, or on the extention I am going to get him to run to the other end of the room for my phone.

I also planned on getting a CAT5 cable ran from this room to each of my two bedrooms so that I could use the internet in these rooms without using wireless (walls are pretty thick).

Questions;-
I was just going to run these from my router to the rooms upstairs, is this ok? Secondly, do I get him to fit some sort of socket upstairs so that I can simply plug into the "new point"?

If I get HD installed downstairs, can I run this up these types of cables? If so I would get a second put in each room. Or am I just as well usind the satelite coaxel I use at present for standard Sky?

Thanks

P

[Beardy10]

Whilst you are getting you BT engineer friend to run your Cat 5e cable from your router (which sounds fine to me) I would get him to run two additional Cat 5e Cables to those rooms from wherever you have your HD source. You can distribute HDMI signal over Cat 5e if you use a simple (but not entirely cheap) piece of electronics on each end of the cable. You could get him to run HDMI cables but the trouble with that is that HDMI isn't great over distance and also as they change the standard (which they keep doing) your cable could eventually become obsolete...already if you don't have high speed HDMI some of the latest kit wont work without it.

You can't use Satellite coaxial for HD.

I'm looking into similar issues myself, I don't think HD video distribution is that easy to do well and cheaply. If you look on avforums.com there are loads of threads about it.

[headcase]

Depends on the length of cable runs, you can get 15-20m HDMI at decent price. If your going longer then as previously suggested you need 2xcat5e cables to the second room then a HDMI-CAT5 black box at either end. There are loads of different ones out there im sure someone will recommend a specific one for you. Also think about changing channel on your skybox from the second location, im not sure if the HDMI-CAT5 black boxes will have this feature, if not then run a co-ax from your sky box also it will serve 2 purposes firstly to supply yout TV's built in tuner with a freeview signal and secondly you can use the sky eye system for changing channels on the sky box remotely.

[anonymous-user]

Thanks guys

I've just email this page to tell what I need, paying beer tokens is much better than what BT were wanting