Cable/pc network project

[k.jacko]

Hi all,
another n00b here,

I started another thread to try and keep it clean, so i hope someone can enlighten/educate/help me with my project.

I move into my new house next week. My intention was/is to flood the house with cat5e and coax cabling with RJ45/coax wallplates in each room, in order to have a nice wired network and RF enabled for tv/radio signal strength. Each room will have its cabling terminate in the loft/attic to a network router (for cat5e) and signal booster/splitter for coax.
I also intended on putting a eurovox in the main living room.
Each bedroom will have a pc (for the kids).
I was originally going to put freeview tv tuner cards in each, but having found this wonderful forum and having read "the insaan's" posts, i'm now looking into getting this product instead of the freeview cards AND the erurovox Technotrend Budget C-1500 inkl. Fernbedienung DVBSHOP - Technotrend, Shop, DVB-S, DVB-C, DVB-T, HDTV, H.264, DVB-S2

Now apparently the nthell (i'm in Nottingham btw) cable comes into the master bedroom upstairs from outside, so i was thinking of piping that into the loft into some kind of booster/splitter and having coax trailing from that into a wallplate in each bedroom, then a cable from the wallplate into the pc (with the above mentioned dvb-c card in). I will also need to split it for broadband purposes as well.
Each pc is new and is a core2duo based media center, most likely running vista home premium 32-bit.

Questions:
1. Does this sound like a decent plan?
2. What else would i need?
3. What possible problems could i encounter?
4. I've read mention of a 'transponder file' what is that and are they customised to each setup?
5. Whats the best coax to use for flooding the house, that will give the best signal.
6. With these dvb-c cards can you record live tv etc?
7. Will the epg on the card integrate with Vista?

Many thanks for your help on this.

[nousernamesleft]

This sounds like a great plan to me and also being a noob I would be interested to see how you get on. Would be interested in doing a similar thing after almost giving up on the previous satellite project..

[k.jacko]

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[k.jacko]

blimey....either i smell, or this aint a very popular forum

[Jimdefruit]

People are allowed to have hangovers this time of year Jacko.

Seriously though one of the cable nuts should be along soon.

As a satellite man myself, the lan side of things sounds fine with cat 5 cable installed from each room to a router.

I am not sure that the TV side is quite so good. Splitting the signal so many times may reduce the quality severely and boosting increases background noise as well as signal. But then, there may be a way.

[k.jacko]

Lol, thanks for the advice.
I am an impatient fella, especially as i've been sober all damned xmas due to feeling crappy.
Its not fair i tells ya!
As for splitting the signal, i've done it before with terrestrial analogue sky tv years ago for about 5 different rooms. Would digital suffer more from splitting and boosting than analogue?

[Jimdefruit]

I think it might be a problem. Splitting a low level digital signal is very different from a RF analogue signal. There are obviously systems that will do it, as in hotels and apartment blocks but they are very expensive.

[the insaan]

if you have a main feed then to ditribute to other pcs you wil need VLC media player on each machine, but you will experience a lot of signal drop.

[k.jacko]

hi,
i have an 8-port loft box, and am going to use CTS100 foam filled coax.
Hopefully split the virgin media broadband cable, one to the bband modem the other to the loft box, which will then split to each room in the house.

[micken]

Originally Posted by the insaan

if you have a main feed then to ditribute to other pcs you wil need VLC media player on each machine, but you will experience a lot of signal drop.

Why the signal drop once it's on the PC lan and being served by VLC?