Home network set-up - different quotes

takman

dunroving wrote: »

Thanks - that definitely gives me a context I can understand! As my shelf life will be another 20 years if I am lucky, maybe cat5e will do me.

But then another way to look at it is that 100m of Cat 6 cable is only going to be £20 - £30 more than 100m of Cat 5e cable.

20 years is a long time and you may decide you want to do more with your network in the future than simply use it to stream video.

baldelectrician

In have my whole house cat 6 networked


I have 2 points in each downstairs location and one each upstairs


I have a 24 way patch panel and have 10 spare ports
I also bought a 24 Port network switch

My broadband is business Virgin BB and I get 380M download.


My son (and apprentice) has an X box and when his port goes through the network switch (separate box) the speed reduces from 380 to 140.
He has a direct feed


I have a network test tool but it is only a basic one- I am a registered electrician but I do cat 6 ports on a rewire as an add on

The last house I rewired was an old sandstone one with thick 'wifi resistant' walls

I personally use a decent Linksys router (not the VM router as I have that on modem mode).



This means that I can have several access points (additional Linksys routers) that give me wifi points in other parts of the house.


The linksys is a bit dear but they are good- they also have the provision to set the wifi on and off in one hour block through the day as well as enhanced parental controls- this means that specific items can be given time restrictions whilst other stuff (such as your TV ) can have interrupted access
You can also set 3 items to have priority access (such as CCTV or TV), this is useful.

Carrot007

dunroving wrote: »

I want to avoid having WiFi in my house for health reasons

I recomend laying off the beer for a bit.

dunroving

Carrot007 wrote: »

I recomend laying off the beer for a bit.

Never touch a drop before noon.

dunroving

baldelectrician wrote: »

In have my whole house cat 6 networked


I have 2 points in each downstairs location and one each upstairs


I have a 24 way patch panel and have 10 spare ports
I also bought a 24 Port network switch

My broadband is business Virgin BB and I get 380M download.


My son (and apprentice) has an X box and when his port goes through the network switch (separate box) the speed reduces from 380 to 140.
He has a direct feed


I have a network test tool but it is only a basic one- I am a registered electrician but I do cat 6 ports on a rewire as an add on

The last house I rewired was an old sandstone one with thick 'wifi resistant' walls

I personally use a decent Linksys router (not the VM router as I have that on modem mode).



This means that I can have several access points (additional Linksys routers) that give me wifi points in other parts of the house.


The linksys is a bit dear but they are good- they also have the provision to set the wifi on and off in one hour block through the day as well as enhanced parental controls- this means that specific items can be given time restrictions whilst other stuff (such as your TV ) can have interrupted access
You can also set 3 items to have priority access (such as CCTV or TV), this is useful.

Thank you, lots of useful information.

Interestingly, I had my final person come this evening to give a quote (let's call him #4). He REALLY seems to know his stuff and can do the whole electrical job, Ethernet/WiFi and satellite. I'm really hoping his quote is affordable because I am pretty sure he will knock the socks of the others, expertise-wise (plus, he's very modest with it).

So far, for full rewire, with various extras (smoke alarms, burglar alarm, couple of extra external lights), octo LNB satellite with feeds to 6 locations, cat6 Ethernet cabling to all rooms (double ine ach room), I so far hahve the folliwng quotes>

Person #1 (electrics) and #2 (Ethernet and satellite) working together come to ca. £3.2k.

Person #3 quoted £5.6k.

Will post the quote from Person #4 when I receive tomorrow or Wednesday.