What cables can go together?

donny-gal

We are re-arranging the room where the router lives. I need to thread the lan cable, telephone cable, power cables, and tv aerial cables down pre-made holes in the walls so cables are hidden (compressed straw walls with cable holes).

Is there any restriction of what can go together?

Thanks

isofa

Not really, better to keep mains cables a little bit away from data cables as they can cause interference, but for a home set-up you'd be unlikely to notice.

mattogier

donny-gal wrote: »

We are re-arranging the room where the router lives. I need to thread the lan cable, telephone cable, power cables, and tv aerial cables down pre-made holes in the walls so cables are hidden (compressed straw walls with cable holes).

Ian Cable? - Any relation to Vince Cable (Lib Party Acting Leader)

If Ian is UTP I'd keep him away from the others if I were you - and copper pipes if you have them. If Ian has a foil coat on then it's not so important now but in the future it MAY become more so so best to future proof and keep Ian in the middle away from the others (Ab bit like Vince's party!)

BTW - like the sound of your walls - very eco - you don't have them on a timber frame per chance?

Stephen_Leak

Mains cables should - ideally - be in separate trunking from communications cables. However, there is no minimum distance specified: in the big combined trunking you sometimes see running around the walls in offices, the mains and comms cables just have to be in separate parts, with one thickness of plastic between them.

donny-gal

mattogier wrote: »

Ian Cable? - Any relation to Vince Cable (Lib Party Acting Leader)

If Ian is UTP I'd keep him away from the others if I were you - and copper pipes if you have them. If Ian has a foil coat on then it's not so important now but in the future it MAY become more so so best to future proof and keep Ian in the middle away from the others (Ab bit like Vince's party!)

BTW - like the sound of your walls - very eco - you don't have them on a timber frame per chance?

Really mattogier - you will have to recognise fonts better, it was l(ocal) a(rea) n(etwork), I omitted the shift key I admit, but it was an "L". I thought it was me with a typing background who was picky on typing not you IT guys. It's OK copper pipes are under the floor.

The walls are "Stramit", quite popular back inthe 70's when our bungalow was built. Yes they do have a batton of wood at the base of them.

MANY THANKS FOR ALL THE RESPONSES. After all this, we need to try again tomorrow as hubby couldn't find the channel this evening:eek:
DG