Can you run them? Sure. In your situation it might be "iffy" since you dont have a hard and fast contract until after the house is built and approved. You will probably need to talk to the contractor and make sure that you can do work on it before you offically own it. You could probably get by with just bribing the electrician, but it could be a pain in the ass if the contractor found out and took issue with it. Cat5e, coax, tele, rca, anything like that is all low voltage wiring. In-wall boxes are not needed. I was doing Cat5 wiring in my High School when I was 16 without any kind of certification. Unless you have a specific need (ethernet a mile away in your barn) I wouldn't mess with fiber. Cat5e already does gigabit, and since there is such a huge cat5 infrastructure in place it only behoves researchers to continue find a way to squeeze just a little bit more out of it.
My dad had a 1994 Ford with a 7.3L with an aftermarket turbo. It was much better in terms of perfomance than mine was, but still had the teeth rattling diesel knock. And it was a beast, he hauled a chuckwagon on a trailer all over the state of Texas, and at one point put my 1980 Datsun pickup on a trailer behind his truck and pulled it down the highway at 70 miles an hour for 150 miles to get it to the mechanics from my college. Once that turbo kicked in there was more than enough power, but if your windows were down you were deaf whenever you got to your destination.
I do realize that there are some pretty amazing diesel cars avalible in Europe, but that doesn't help me, sitting in Texas. As far as the whole volkswagen thing goes- I'm 6'3" and 215 pounds. Me and smallish cars dont work well. When I can find a Mazda 626 sized car, with a common rail diesel, thats quiet, gets good performance, and I dont have to think about any more than a gasoline car other than make sure I pull up to the right pump, then I'll reevaluate. I currently have not seen anything aproximating that in the States, even in the Mercedes diesels that I've ridden in.
I've been working in ISP tech support for about 3 years now, and have been able to be fairly involved with the telco end, thanks to working for a small ISP where you HAD to do everything. The answer I've always gotten from GTE/Verizon, and Southwestern Bell, is that you cannot run DSL over anything but copper until it hits either a CO or a DSLAM. Those squat green boxes you see in some housing developments are usualy a bad sign. In my area (North Central Texas) SWB often runs copper from homes to those boxes, and then fiber from the box to the CO. This lets them run thousands of phone lines, but no DSL for you. One of the upscale housing developments in my hometown was recently put in that situation. They put in a box, and fiber to the CO. They did leave about a dozen copper connections from the box to the CO, so the first 12 people in that development that tried to get DSL, got it. After that, there was no more copper left and everyone else was SOL. I remember hearing somewhere that iDSL (which emulates isdn, complete with the limit of 128k speed) functioned over fiber. However, I've never ever seen anywhere that talked about offering iDSL. The only hope that you have is that they put in a DSLAM in the box where your phone line transfers to fiber. Not working in telco, I'm not sure what this entails, but the SWB guy I've talked to explained it like this. The DSLAM basicaly turns the junction between fiber and copper into another CO, and then routes your data over the fiber like they do at the phone company. Sorry I cant be too specific on the details, maybe someone in the telco industry can give a better explination than that.
I drove a 1980 Ford f250 diesel truck for a while. After having it, I think I'll leave the diesel for big trucks, and stick with gas for my cars. The problems I had with diesel were
1) fuel avalibility. Everywhere had a pump, but usually only 1, most of the time it was seperate and uncovered, and usually in bad shape. This was in Texas, where diesel trucks ARE common. If it rained, you didn't have the luxury of an island, but were stuck on some unlit corner of the station getting soaked. Those that did have a diesel pump in line with the rest of the gas pumps I often found it occupied by a car getting regular gasoline, and have to wait until they were finished to get my diesel.
2) Noise. My truck was freakin loud. I've ridden in diesel cars (most notably a Mercedes) and while they were better, still had a noticible diesel "knock." Nothing says "Hello Mom, I'm breaking curfew." quite like a diesel engine pulling into the driveway late. If my windows were down it was quite unbearable in towns where the noise would bounce off buildings.
3) Performance. My current vehicle is a Datsun pickup with a 92 horsepower I-4 engine. However, it feels like a racecar compared to the 6.9L V-8 diesel in my old truck. The truck had plenty of pulling power, but was slow as christmas. I like my cars to have ooomph, mileage be damned.
Now there were some good things about that truck- we sold it with 240,00 miles on it 4 years ago, and it now has well over 300,00 on it, and the person we sold it to is still using it as a work truck. Other than a starter going out I never had any mechanical problem with it. However, until I can get a quiet car with acceleration more like my Camaro than my pickup, I'll stick with gasoline.
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Can you run them? Sure. In your situation it might be "iffy" since you dont have a hard and fast contract until after the house is built and approved. You will probably need to talk to the contractor and make sure that you can do work on it before you offically own it. You could probably get by with just bribing the electrician, but it could be a pain in the ass if the contractor found out and took issue with it. Cat5e, coax, tele, rca, anything like that is all low voltage wiring. In-wall boxes are not needed. I was doing Cat5 wiring in my High School when I was 16 without any kind of certification. Unless you have a specific need (ethernet a mile away in your barn) I wouldn't mess with fiber. Cat5e already does gigabit, and since there is such a huge cat5 infrastructure in place it only behoves researchers to continue find a way to squeeze just a little bit more out of it.
My dad had a 1994 Ford with a 7.3L with an aftermarket turbo. It was much better in terms of perfomance than mine was, but still had the teeth rattling diesel knock. And it was a beast, he hauled a chuckwagon on a trailer all over the state of Texas, and at one point put my 1980 Datsun pickup on a trailer behind his truck and pulled it down the highway at 70 miles an hour for 150 miles to get it to the mechanics from my college. Once that turbo kicked in there was more than enough power, but if your windows were down you were deaf whenever you got to your destination. I do realize that there are some pretty amazing diesel cars avalible in Europe, but that doesn't help me, sitting in Texas. As far as the whole volkswagen thing goes- I'm 6'3" and 215 pounds. Me and smallish cars dont work well. When I can find a Mazda 626 sized car, with a common rail diesel, thats quiet, gets good performance, and I dont have to think about any more than a gasoline car other than make sure I pull up to the right pump, then I'll reevaluate. I currently have not seen anything aproximating that in the States, even in the Mercedes diesels that I've ridden in.
I've been working in ISP tech support for about 3 years now, and have been able to be fairly involved with the telco end, thanks to working for a small ISP where you HAD to do everything. The answer I've always gotten from GTE/Verizon, and Southwestern Bell, is that you cannot run DSL over anything but copper until it hits either a CO or a DSLAM. Those squat green boxes you see in some housing developments are usualy a bad sign. In my area (North Central Texas) SWB often runs copper from homes to those boxes, and then fiber from the box to the CO. This lets them run thousands of phone lines, but no DSL for you. One of the upscale housing developments in my hometown was recently put in that situation. They put in a box, and fiber to the CO. They did leave about a dozen copper connections from the box to the CO, so the first 12 people in that development that tried to get DSL, got it. After that, there was no more copper left and everyone else was SOL. I remember hearing somewhere that iDSL (which emulates isdn, complete with the limit of 128k speed) functioned over fiber. However, I've never ever seen anywhere that talked about offering iDSL. The only hope that you have is that they put in a DSLAM in the box where your phone line transfers to fiber. Not working in telco, I'm not sure what this entails, but the SWB guy I've talked to explained it like this. The DSLAM basicaly turns the junction between fiber and copper into another CO, and then routes your data over the fiber like they do at the phone company. Sorry I cant be too specific on the details, maybe someone in the telco industry can give a better explination than that.
I drove a 1980 Ford f250 diesel truck for a while. After having it, I think I'll leave the diesel for big trucks, and stick with gas for my cars. The problems I had with diesel were 1) fuel avalibility. Everywhere had a pump, but usually only 1, most of the time it was seperate and uncovered, and usually in bad shape. This was in Texas, where diesel trucks ARE common. If it rained, you didn't have the luxury of an island, but were stuck on some unlit corner of the station getting soaked. Those that did have a diesel pump in line with the rest of the gas pumps I often found it occupied by a car getting regular gasoline, and have to wait until they were finished to get my diesel. 2) Noise. My truck was freakin loud. I've ridden in diesel cars (most notably a Mercedes) and while they were better, still had a noticible diesel "knock." Nothing says "Hello Mom, I'm breaking curfew." quite like a diesel engine pulling into the driveway late. If my windows were down it was quite unbearable in towns where the noise would bounce off buildings. 3) Performance. My current vehicle is a Datsun pickup with a 92 horsepower I-4 engine. However, it feels like a racecar compared to the 6.9L V-8 diesel in my old truck. The truck had plenty of pulling power, but was slow as christmas. I like my cars to have ooomph, mileage be damned. Now there were some good things about that truck- we sold it with 240,00 miles on it 4 years ago, and it now has well over 300,00 on it, and the person we sold it to is still using it as a work truck. Other than a starter going out I never had any mechanical problem with it. However, until I can get a quiet car with acceleration more like my Camaro than my pickup, I'll stick with gasoline.