re-wiring house - advice required

[mearnsbull]

Hi all,

Just joined the site and looking for some advice please?

I've just bought a new house and i've just started renovating. I'm just about to lift the floorboards to re-wire the electrics and although i'm not ready to sit back and enjoy sky TV yet (probably a good few months away). Should I run cables into every room for Sky TV? should it be from a centre point in my house where I would fit a booster? What kind of cable would / should I use?

Any advice or links would be greatly appreciated

Thanks in advance

Mearnsbull

[madrat]

Minimum cable requirement is RG6, You will need 1 feed from RF2 output on Sky box. You will then need a distribution device. that will require some sort of power supply although you can get one that takes its powere from the RF2 output on the sky box, it will also need a bypass circut built in if you want to be able to use a magic eye to change channels from another room.

something like the following are good.
_http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?ModuleNo=33969&doy=6m8

They also make a model that takes its power from the sky box

_http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?ModuleNo=48669&doy=6m8 This is a 2 way but I think you can get ones with more

[BGonaSTICK]

Yes, bring everything together at a central point - maybe in the loft. That will give you the most flexibility in the future.

I would use the best quality cable you can afford - with a minimum standard of CT100/H109/WC100 but preferably WF100 double-shielded in copper with a foam filled core.

I would also run two cables to each room. You can then either have a sky plus box in each room, use the second cable for terrestrial (or something else even) or just leave it for future use.

It's no more trouble to run a pair of cables than a single, and far cheaper to do it now rather than once all your flooring is down.

STICK

[Gav]

Aside from the television side of things, I'd also recommend running Category 6 Ethernet cable throughout the house

[madrat]

Good idea, safer than wifi to.

[Gav]

Nope, the hackers will just sent in rats to nibble through the cable 8)

[madrat]

I was thinking more of the newly discovered health risks concerning wifi.

[Gav]

Originally Posted by madrat

I was thinking more of the newly discovered health risks concerning wifi.

I'm not going to get into a debate about this, but its total bull. They've done really extensive testing and found not one piece of evidence saying that there is. They've also found that a lot of Laser Printers emit toxic gasses (or something), but that doesn't mean that people are going to stop using them :P

[BGonaSTICK]

I think it's highly likely that the total effect of man-made radiation will have a detrimental long-term effect on human health, but it may never be proven.

Photocopiers and laser printers emit ozone, which is apparently harmful to the atmosphere!

[Analoguesat]

Originally Posted by mearnsbull

Hi all,

Just joined the site and looking for some advice please?

I've just bought a new house and i've just started renovating. I'm just about to lift the floorboards to re-wire the electrics and although i'm not ready to sit back and enjoy sky TV yet (probably a good few months away). Should I run cables into every room for Sky TV? should it be from a centre point in my house where I would fit a booster? What kind of c@ble would / should I use?

Any advice or links would be greatly appreciated

Thanks in advance

Mearnsbull

Work out how many cables you need now then double it!