Running the cables through the house was quite a task. I wanted as much of it chased into the walls as possible and I did them myself which was nerve wracking at first making the holes but once I replastered one the rest were fine. We managed to run most of the wires into the loft and feed into the rooms below. The loft is converted which made it tricky. Also managed to get the sky dude to use the same channels which was good as they don't normally agree and it's all surface mounted which looks naff.

Impossible on your own though. One of you to push the rod through, the other to try and grab it on other end. I think it's worth it though.

 

For those that might be interested. My home cab.



Just buying bits and bobs to finish the server.

 

I haven't used a cable in my house since 1998. What on earth are you doing?

 

I feel inadequate with a 8 port gigabit switch in the loft

 

If I was networking my own house I'd use powerline adapters for fixed installation stuff like TV's, playstations, etc.

 

Thing is with powerline adapters they're not that brilliant for speed

 

In order of speed and reliability :-

Wireless > powerline > wired

 

Wired > wireless > powerline

Wired (gigabit) ..... but even on a 100 connection its better to have reliable speed than fluctuations you sometimes get on wireless

 

Wired>Powerline>Wireless you mean?

Gigabit>500mbps>300mps!

 

Sorry, but 500mbps on powerline is brilliant imho

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=50...w=1881&bih=867

 

but thats down to your how far the powerline adapters i had , at best connected at 86mbps sometimes a 100mbps. i got fed up of it cutting out so i just wired some cat6 and got gigabit instead

 

I don't like powerline adapters either having tried two different types that only ran at a fraction of their claimed speed and were unreliable. Even 500mbps claimed stuff was slow. In a small house or on the same ring they run OK, but wifi usually works in that situation.

EddScott that looks great. Wife and I have got quite good at getting cables where they really shouldn't be able to go in C shaped building with lots of tiny attics (we fish them down from attics between the stone outer wall and the timber kit inside) but yours is another league.

 

A mate of mine has set up a powerline ethernet network in his house. He says he doesn't like the idea of loads of wifi radio signals zipping about all the time. He has small kids.

 

Guy at work won't leave the router on when not needed in case it fries his family's brains. I suggested tin foil hats

 

It might not be so stupid. I read about a statistical correlation between people living near high voltage power lines and getting various illness. But I don't think the foil will help.

 

I have been using powerline adaptors since the old 80mbps ones and have never had any throughput issues, although the older ones sometimes disconnected. The only time I have seen issues with the throughput was when I was sharing the bandwidth with another user on the powerline network which is the same with wired.

Wireless always has issues with range, dropped connections requiring a reboot (likely windows or hardware related).

 

By far the most preferable route, if I didn't rent I would hardwire as well

 

I recently got one and thought I would chuck a lord of the rings full hd through it, handles it fine, it does skip frames if you go back out to the menus though whilst the film is playing (which you have no reason to do)

 

similar specs to mine and the same case except I have a 6 series radeon in there. Had 2 x dual tuners DVB-S and DVB-T so could record 3 things whilst watching a fourth. Upstairs now as I have gone back sky

 

I did have an Nvidia 8800 GTX but it died so went back to the onboard graphics which work pretty well tbh.

Also now got SKY+ as well as the HUMAX

 

Nice one! I may pick one up