Rick C. wrote:
> With 802.11a and b, with 2.4gig and 5gig wireless for data
> networking, voice and
> video, and who knows what else in the future, wiring, except for
> power is almost
> obsolete. The US phone companies in the not too distant future are
> going to stop
> running wires to residences and obsoleteing (sp) all current wired
> POTS lines.
> You will pick up your new wireless residential phone at the store and
> that's all
> there will be. Light spans (fiber) will be run from the CO to
> residential
> clusters and wireless to the residences.
>
> When I built my house in the early 80's I ran a 25 pair, two RG6's, 1
> RG8, a pair
> of 10ga stranded for 12 volts, 4 runs of JK for phones, sensors, and
> alarms, and
> two pull strings to every room including the bathroom. Haven't used
> but one JK
> since then.
>
> Conduit is nice but make sure your right angles have wide sweeps or
> you'll never
> get a wire through to turns. Plug all ends when done. You don't need
> to make a
> raceway for the mice or snakes to commute from room to room. They
> like to eat
> insulation too!
> Rick

In 1993 I was building a new house, then ended up buying a neighbor house,
it was built only 4 months before.  It was sad since I was not able to run
the 5 tons of cables I was planning to.  Even so, I ended up cris-crossing
the ceiling and walls with so many cables and wires during the next couple
of years.  Wireless is a good thing, but even so, try to use an Ericsson
2.4GHz multiple phone system, along with wireless Internet and wireless
security camera system, all of them sharing the same 2.4GHz frequency.  You
have image instability, retries at the wireless Internet and noise at the
phone system.  Last weekend I just went to the maze in the ceiling just to
lay down another couple of coax and Cat5 just to solve the messing war of
RF inside home.  My house's ceiling is a dream, looks like heaven - full of
pink fiberglass all around, but like hell it is hot, dark and unbreathable
fiberglass in suspension, 5 million nails tip down from the roof just try
to get your skull all the time (and hundred of them really get you - and
you bleed), mostly when you get some feet close to the edge of the roof
(where is flat and no space - you need to crawl - over fiberglass and
breakable ceiling).

By the actual CAT5 price, it will not hurt to install them all around, even
with the future flashing 802.11x.

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