Wiring my home

[devildog6112]

I want to wire my home for eithernet, coax, and telephone. I looked into the distribution panels but the hubs are too expensive and very limiting. I already have a 16 port 10/100 hub that I can use in the house, but I do not want to put it in the garage with the panel. Is there any way I can wire the wall jacks to the distribution panel and then use one of the cat 5 runs back to my server (connected to a cable modem)? I have made a rough drawing and you can see it here.

Thanks for any help!

 

[Garion]

You pretty much have to put your hub at the same point that you have your wiring panel, sorry.

- G

 

[devildog6112]

I am going to run Cat 5e as the phone lines too, it's cheap enough. However, I do not want digital phones just yet. I create web applications and at times need to dial out so I can test download speeds. If I use Levitons quickport phone jacks, I believe they are 4 pair, will the phone company still be able to hook them up to ananlog? As you can tell, I am new to networking. I've wanted to do it for a long time and now I have the chance, there are just so many questions.

 

[doug]

Yes you can use RJ45 jacks and Cat5e as phone wiring.

This may help you out:
http://www.wildtracks.cihost.com/homewire/

 

[fargus]

Hard to tell from your drawing, but you should run (minimum) two runs of both CAT5 and RG6 coax to each location. (two runs of coax allows video distribution to and from any point). Don't use RG59 coax, it's only a few cents cheaper but has much lower bandwidth.

Don't see it specifically in your drawing, but central site should have the CAT5 runs from each room punched down to a patch panel, then connected via patch cables to your hub.