Lyndhurst Garden House

Lyndhurst Garden House
Lyndhurst Garden House

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Lower cost home network

Only one 12 port panel in kitchen.  All other rooms have 6 port panel.  This is the constraint.  This is what I talked about with electrician.  Otherwise I suspect cost goes way up.

From kitchen, 2 great rooms (kings and living) get 3 CAT6's and one RG6.  Then queen's room gets 2 CAT6's and one RG6.  Then computer room inputs to one CAT6.

From computer room, there are 4 outgoing CAT6's.  The two extra ports are RG6 to kings and living.

Obviously I need to make diagram, the reduction has made it slightly less intuitive perhaps.

Here I can make tables, 5 room letters: M Q K L C, I'll have to use convention M for Master Bedroom so as to use a different letter than kitchen K.

RG6's

K-M
K-L
K-C K-Q (see update below)
C-M
L-Q

RG6's have to work around constraints of 2 max in most rooms, except 3 max in kitchen.  Would be nice to have had kitchen as single (or double!) hub as originally envisioned, but there aren't enough slots in the kitchen.  The missing hub position K-Q is replaced by a splitter in the living room and a L-Q connection.  Plus there's a nice connection from C-M, currently served by a hole in the wall (which may be replaced by a small panel--or not replaced, during king's room remodel.  I am using 5 RG6's, but ordered 8 because I envisioned double hub from kitchen to each room, but that would require 5 more slots.  Anyway double hub would not have provided the nice C-M.  The original intent was open, and could have included temporary stereo audio patches, or bi-directional video, but the current intent is to provide security video, with the C-M providing computer video.  Could be used as RF or FM in the future.

CAT6A's

K-M(3)
K-L(3)
K-Q(2)
C-K(1)
C-L(1)
C-Q(1)
C-M(1)
new C-G(1)

That shows 12  13 CAT6A's, down from 16 expected.

*** Change July 24 ***

I have decided to run one CAT6A from computer room to garage.  That means that there is no space for RG6 from computer room to kitchen, so back goes the RG6 connection from kitchen to queen's room, likely permitting security channel.  Only other panels with space would be the Living Room (only if the connection to Queen's is removed though) or garage.  There would be little point in running two RG6's from kitchen to living room, especially when the security channel could be split inside queen's room and then sent back to living room, thereby allowing an alternate RF or video signal from kitchen to living room already.  The opposite approach wouldn't work, because sending RF and security to living room would fill the living room panel and require the connection to queens room be dropped.

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