For under $300 I was able to wire my entire house for 10/100 ethernet. The largest part of that bill was the ~$190 that I paid for the 10/100 switching hub.
I'm currently in the process of wiring my house; I'm doing two coax outlets and 9 cat5 RJ45 outlets per room. I recently did the calculations..at 9 rooms, this is going to come out to a little over a mile of wire in the house.
The cost came out to around $1000 for the wire, and about $500-$1000 (I can't remember exactly) for the jacks and patch panel.
The wiring all home runs to a closet which contains a rack, the servers, and a 40 port 10/100 switch. I'm also in the process of installing some extra circuits in that closet, as well as an air conditioning unit.
I figure this will do me fairly well; there are products that let you send KVM, audio, video, etc. all over Cat5 twisted pair, so I should be *fairly* future proof.
I'm running 3 sets of speaker wire (12/3 romex is beautiful for this) between the stereo room and the bathroom, backyard, and jacuzzi in addition to all the data wire, and am in the process of upgrading the electrical system, too. It's fun, plus I can hook up to the internet in any room, and it raises the value of my home.
I'm probably a bit atypical, but I don't ever want to have to do this again -- some walls were a bitch to get wires through (mostly outside walls, but I wanted the jacks where they were). At some point I'll take pictures of it all and throw it up on the web somewhere, but right now it's still In Progress.
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For under $300 I was able to wire my entire house for 10/100 ethernet. The largest part of that bill was the ~$190 that I paid for the 10/100 switching hub.
I'm currently in the process of wiring my house; I'm doing two coax outlets and 9 cat5 RJ45 outlets per room. I recently did the calculations..at 9 rooms, this is going to come out to a little over a mile of wire in the house.
The cost came out to around $1000 for the wire, and about $500-$1000 (I can't remember exactly) for the jacks and patch panel.
The wiring all home runs to a closet which contains a rack, the servers, and a 40 port 10/100 switch. I'm also in the process of installing some extra circuits in that closet, as well as an air conditioning unit.
I figure this will do me fairly well; there are products that let you send KVM, audio, video, etc. all over Cat5 twisted pair, so I should be *fairly* future proof.
I'm running 3 sets of speaker wire (12/3 romex is beautiful for this) between the stereo room and the bathroom, backyard, and jacuzzi in addition to all the data wire, and am in the process of upgrading the electrical system, too. It's fun, plus I can hook up to the internet in any room, and it raises the value of my home.
I'm probably a bit atypical, but I don't ever want to have to do this again -- some walls were a bitch to get wires through (mostly outside walls, but I wanted the jacks where they were). At some point I'll take pictures of it all and throw it up on the web somewhere, but right now it's still In Progress.