Post by bobbiedog on Mar 20, 2005 0:43:23 GMT 1
I'm currently, and very slowly, and such as to alternately sadden and please the wife: carrying out superficial finishing work to our house; basically just lining things with wood and plasterboard, making storage and working surfaces.
So opportunity to run cables: and thinking what we need, and might need; and I'm old enough to be thinking, "now, will that see me out".
Currently we have lots of computers of all sorts of vintage and working order. We have lots of bits and bobs that we have bought into when they got cheap enough.
Our area will hopefully go to broadband in may this year.
We have a couple of XP running computers LAN ed together with an RJ45 patch lead: and a dial-up ISP connection, through one of these competers. We have an older Toshba 4200 Satalite with InfraRed: amd a rake of old stuff, where we have each of them on pay as you go dial-up ISP, so they can "talK" to our other computers by e-mail.
So we have learnt a little about LANs: and the boys have had great fun playing games, on LAN, and over the web.
But, we really have only learnt and understood what we have had to, to get the next thing working: and I'm thinking about cables really in 1970's building terms, and to do with electrics.
Anyway: this is what I've started doing. I've bought Cat 5E cable from Screwfix: and I'm running a 5E cable from each room, back to where the Broadband Modem will be; putting what Screwfix calls "Keystone" outlets.
My understanding of modern Broadband Modems, is that I can connect each cable to this modem: and that this modem will both connect any computer run into an outlet, both to the web, and to each other; I'm assuming that the "switches" mentioned on such modems, has something to do with such LAN connecting. I'm also assuming that I can connect our printers to a computer on this LAN, such that any other computer on that LAN could send something to the printer. I'm aware of things called routers: but imagine that such might be built into modern broadband nodems; or that I might increase connecting capacity, by linking a further router to a modem.
So, basic idea: run cable from each use point, back to the modem position; modern modem connectivity gives me LAN and web connection. Peripherals can be conected to one computer, then accessed by ret of LAN.
Have I got things right?
Does running single radials to every use point, give me what I need?
What cables do you use for distributing digital TV stuff? We're not into Sattelite TV, but we have individual Freeview boxes for different sets. I can see the usefulness of maybe in the future, sending digital stuff from a central box of some kind, or even from computers, to multiple TVs. Could you use RJ45/5E cables to send usable digital signals to TVs, or am I getting my cables crossed.
Anyway. Central point. Is running single 5E cable from use point, to broadband modem point: a decent basic architecture for cabling a house for digital use.
If you were going wireless: can you just plug a wirless antennae into a RJ45 outlet; sort of a mix of hard-wiring and wireless? We have a long, thin house/garden layout: with lots of thick stone walls.
So opportunity to run cables: and thinking what we need, and might need; and I'm old enough to be thinking, "now, will that see me out".
Currently we have lots of computers of all sorts of vintage and working order. We have lots of bits and bobs that we have bought into when they got cheap enough.
Our area will hopefully go to broadband in may this year.
We have a couple of XP running computers LAN ed together with an RJ45 patch lead: and a dial-up ISP connection, through one of these competers. We have an older Toshba 4200 Satalite with InfraRed: amd a rake of old stuff, where we have each of them on pay as you go dial-up ISP, so they can "talK" to our other computers by e-mail.
So we have learnt a little about LANs: and the boys have had great fun playing games, on LAN, and over the web.
But, we really have only learnt and understood what we have had to, to get the next thing working: and I'm thinking about cables really in 1970's building terms, and to do with electrics.
Anyway: this is what I've started doing. I've bought Cat 5E cable from Screwfix: and I'm running a 5E cable from each room, back to where the Broadband Modem will be; putting what Screwfix calls "Keystone" outlets.
My understanding of modern Broadband Modems, is that I can connect each cable to this modem: and that this modem will both connect any computer run into an outlet, both to the web, and to each other; I'm assuming that the "switches" mentioned on such modems, has something to do with such LAN connecting. I'm also assuming that I can connect our printers to a computer on this LAN, such that any other computer on that LAN could send something to the printer. I'm aware of things called routers: but imagine that such might be built into modern broadband nodems; or that I might increase connecting capacity, by linking a further router to a modem.
So, basic idea: run cable from each use point, back to the modem position; modern modem connectivity gives me LAN and web connection. Peripherals can be conected to one computer, then accessed by ret of LAN.
Have I got things right?
Does running single radials to every use point, give me what I need?
What cables do you use for distributing digital TV stuff? We're not into Sattelite TV, but we have individual Freeview boxes for different sets. I can see the usefulness of maybe in the future, sending digital stuff from a central box of some kind, or even from computers, to multiple TVs. Could you use RJ45/5E cables to send usable digital signals to TVs, or am I getting my cables crossed.
Anyway. Central point. Is running single 5E cable from use point, to broadband modem point: a decent basic architecture for cabling a house for digital use.
If you were going wireless: can you just plug a wirless antennae into a RJ45 outlet; sort of a mix of hard-wiring and wireless? We have a long, thin house/garden layout: with lots of thick stone walls.