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
I would suggest that more "future proof" option would
be to put in accessible trunking.
The fibre optic spec is almost certain to change in
the next 20 years making the cable obsolete.
Bernard.
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