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The upstairs corridor that runs the length of the house (55'x16', odd long and thin house design) is all up and loosened in order to correct electrical faults - and we are wondering whether it is worth running fibre optic under the boards at this point to terminate in every room in the house. I don't intend to lift this floor again for the next 20 years! It is probably going to be laminated or even tiled due to my daughter's serious problem with allergies. So once it is down it is staying down. How much does it cost per metre for fibre? What size of fibre? I suspect the killer is the cost of fibre to ethernet conversion box or thingummy in each room used! Unfortunately the joists have been really hacked about and due to a particularly incompent wiring job there is little if any space to run multiple instances of gigabit wires without touching electric cable, which can cause eddy currents in twisted pair up to 20 volts and I've killed a couple of ethernet cards in the past where cables have touched. I really don't want to weaken the joists which are carrying the entire weight of upstairs concrete block walls and the tile roof by drilling any more holes or cutting any more notches (although every single board has a notch going across its middle with a wire and a pipe, literally every one, so there is no room for another set of notches). It is a "5" bedroom house (most 8x7 boxrooms with a couple used as studies for us and the kids) and 3 rooms downstairs, all easily accessible if I don't have to worry about touching electric cabling which I assume fibre optic will be indifferent to. Thinking ahead to the convergence of all things being networked over the next decade and not wanting to run lots of cables around the outside of the house in trunking, is it crazy to want to run optic into each room where any conceivable networked device might come into existence (like monitoring the fridge and central heating or having a camera on the doorbell interrogated from afar over the 'net!)??? Wireless is so crowded in our small town, within the local vicinity. it is often not possible to log onto the wireless router. As an aside can one get better aerials to screw into wireless routers that pump out more power and literally drown out some of the neighbours (wireless wars commence eh). Best wishes and happy new year to everyone Malcolm -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq