[ale] Future-proofing a house for networking -- what to run?

[Solomon Peachy]

On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 09:33:47AM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> If you had the ability to future-proof your house (imagine open studs,
> so you could run anything you wanted), what would you run.  Assume a max
> of 6 cables per drop?

I'm wiring a house right now.

I'm running at least a pair of cat6 to each room to a PoE-enabled 1Gbps 
switch, plus a pair to every place a TV, camera, or access point will 
sit.  That wiring will be able to handle the 2.5/5G over copper just 
fine once the equipment becomes affordable.

I also have conduit in the ground between all outbuildings, and they
will end up with at least a pair of cat6 and whatever is the cheapest 
fiber bundle I can get.  (due to the economics of fiber, it's often 
cheaper to get multi-pair bundles than single-pair..)

I probably won't even bother terminating it until there's some need, 
neatly sidestepping the question of connectors etc to use, as that 
depends a lot on the equipment you're going to run.

 - Solomon
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Solomon Peachy			       pizza at shaftnet dot org
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