rewiring - future proofing

aliby21

Thank you, this is all so helpful. I really like the approach of making it easy to put in cables in future, whatever the requirements might be, and this has made me rethink a few thinks but I reckon I have come up with a cunning plan , This is all giving me a much better idea of how things might work, or could work. All your input is very much appreciated

Mr_Toad

I'm going to disagree with the wired solution.

Five years ago a friend of mine moved house into a beautiful place that needed renovating and remodeling. As part of those renovations and because they were re-plastering every room he wired them all for satellite, sound and Ethernet.

All his sockets have USB etc.

At the time it seemed like the best way to future proof the entire house. Five years down the line things have moved on to the point where most of the wiring is pretty much redundant. The only part of the wiring he's using is the Sat feed to the bedroom and his study.None of his other devices are tethered to the wall with Ethernet cables.

What some of the others are saying about wireless was very true five years ago but not now. I'm sitting on my laptop and my wireless connection speed is exactly the same as my Ethernet speed on the desktop because I have a TPLink wireless repeater, it also has three Ethernet ports in the socket by the TV, one is connected to the TV, one to the Freeview box and the other to an Xbox.

A couple of years ago I lived in part of a 16th Century Manor house, the walls were solid stone and some were 3 foot thick. I used a set of plug in wireless extenders in those rooms I needed them and over the years as speeds increased I replaced them. The current ones that give me full fibre speed all over the house via wireless.

My point is that his re-wire was expensive and time consuming. A decent set of wireless extenders cost a few quid in comparison.

Another point to consider. Is the future really going to be wired?