What would you do???

[PeeWeeC5]

If you were building a new home and you had to decide on where & what to wire for in each room?

Would you run CAT5/CAT5E/CAT6 to every room?

How about Coax?

How many outlets would you put in the rooms? Would you have a 220V plug installed in the garage? If so would there be any reason 40 amp service to that plug wouldn't be sufficient?

If I wanted to go ahead and install the needed components for a ceiling mounted projector is there a general distance from where the screen will be mounted that they should be installed?

Any other things you would/wouldn't do?

[8mpg]

I would wire each room with a coax and cat 5 on 2 walls. This gives you two places to put the tv or computer without having to mess with it later. I dont think Id bother with cat6... I dont forsee any type of connection coming into your house over 100mb/s anytime soon. Id also put a phone connection with the cat5/coax. I would have 2 power on each long wall and 1 power on the short walls. I really think with wiring, its better to have more than enough than not enough. Running wires later is a bitch

Dont forget to add surround sound wiring for each room that might need it (media room, game room or living room).

I would put a couple 220s in...again, on opposite walls. You never know when you might need the welder on the other side of say a 3 bay garage. 40 amp should do it. I believe my Millermatic 185 runs on 20amps. Also, think about possibly putting a 220v out back for an air compressor. Running that thing outside the garage would be nice.

Ceiling mounted projectors can be zoomed in and out. General rule of thumb we used to use was about 10'-12' back from the screen...this is going to depend on the projector and size of screen though. Make sure whatever they give you for a hole, that it is a good 1.5" - 2". If you need to pull a few cables (especially a VGA) it is nice to not have to solder an end on because the hole was to small. Id have them run conduit from the projector back to the media rack/closet.

[Slowhand]

I would wire each room with a coax and cat 5 on 2 walls. This gives you two places to put the tv or computer without having to mess with it later. I dont think Id bother with cat6... I dont forsee any type of connection coming into your house over 100mb/s anytime soon. Id also put a phone connection with the cat5/coax. I would have 2 power on each long wall and 1 power on the short walls. I really think with wiring, its better to have more than enough than not enough. Running wires later is a bitch.

x2. I could find a use for cat 5 in just about every room in my house, yet we've only got it in 2 rooms; no reason not to give yourself the option while it's easy.

[DFWtechie]

I ran 2 coax and 2 cat5E to each wall in every room, this way the rooms can be set up in way. I also put 4 Polks in lvrm ceiling and ran wire them to all 4 walls. The 2 cat5e to each is so you can run a phone and data jack if needed.

[ceyko]

I personally would only put networking cable between main office locations and/or places you may have servers. In other words places that require cabling. Past that wireless has been and always will be sufficient for most other needs.

COAX? Yeah, I'd go hog wild with this until they have wireless cable TV. :)

[doopie]

Home run the shit out of your house......2 RG6 and 2 Cat 5e bundled in one run then run extra Cat5E everywhere else. At least 4 per room (Phone, Internet, Fax, Whole house audio, automated lighting. Everything being designed today is based on cat5e it seems.

I use Marsh wiring on Blue Mound Road in Fort Worth reasonable prices for a local company.

Smurf pipe your boxes so that it is easy to get to when you want add cables.

Do not forget cameras you want to add some RG59 with two strand power

T there is speaker wire everywhere from the walls to the speakers and from the box to the speakers.

Then HDMI cables have big heads so you may want to conduit those areas as well to make it easier

You can never run enough cat5e.

Raymond

[Chopped54]

You could just run 1" "smurf tube" from the attic into each room to a junction box. Then you can go back and feed any kind of cables you need too at a future date. No need to spend money on all types of cabling you may never use, but this way you have the option to run it later.

[FSON]

few think about good lighting.

[STRONGNUFF]

In our house, each room in the house has 4 phone lines, 2 cable lines, 1 ethernet line, and 1 fiber optic line.

I guess the previous owner who designed the house was a bit of a techno nerd !

[DamonH]

I went ahead and ran cat6 to every room in my new house. It's backwards compatible with cat5, why wouldn't you pay the few extra bucks just in case? It wasn't much difference IIRC. I also had outlets put up high for mounting flat panel TVs. I ran smurf tube to those outlets as well for HDMI. I prewired my media room for surround sound, + HDMI, component, DB15, etc. for my projector.