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On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:43:01 +0000 Malcolm Blackmore wrote: > 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 Sounds like an interesting project. When I laid Cat5e throughout my Mum's house I ran it along-side the plumbing to avoid issues with running too close to power cables, but I can completely understand the desire to cut straight to FO to hopefully future-proof yourself. Good luck. Grant. :) -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq