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I just don't want to wind up missing a digit or limb. I can sometimes get in a hurry to get results.
Looking great Kyle. I bet there is a lot of excitement around home as it all come together.
Quote from: Sammconn on August 24, 2015, 01:47:42 PMLooking great Kyle. I bet there is a lot of excitement around home as it all come together.We literally go up there every day. Today is our 2 year anniversary, and I'm going to surprise wifey with dinner in our "dining room"... So that means take-out on a folding table and chairs. Who knows maybe i'll get fancy and light a candle LoL
Cat6 to every room yes, and stubbed for the shop. It will all come to a closet, inside a network panel, where all of the coax cable and cat6 will be split from. Will also be pre-wired for satellite, and the modem/router will be there also, with pre-wired flexibility to run DSL or Cable. For the nerds among us who will know what this is... going to have a 4 TB NAS in the man-cave, hard wired in to the network and will be the media server for the house and every device (streaming of my whole library of movies and music to any device), with another redundant networked hard-drive inside the safe through the safe's ethernet/usb/power hub for backup of critical files and all photos. Going to be putting the Liberty Fatboy 64 in the man-cave ;D Cuz, well, it's fitting a fatboy get a Fatboy.(Ryan i figured you'd chime in on this, you were one i was thinking of above as a nerd among us like me LoL)
You going to add some ethernet runs to each room? Wireless is nice, but hardwired is mucho better imo.
Kyle et al... Great topics. Couple of questions. What Broadband are you going to have available at your site? Amazon Web Service and other Cloud options are great for backup. the challenge I have seen is the sync software that keeps everything current. Plus if you are running media server off of your 4TB NAS you will want all of that local. Uptime will have more to do with the telecom (broadband) link than AWS or the Cloud uptime.
If you put POE switches in you don't really need Coax for camera's and you wouldn't need AC power at camera sites. You might like AC plugs under the eaves of the house for Christmas lights though! :D Cable or Direct TV even have WiFi receivers.
Also have you thought of disguising your equipment closet? Maybe even making a false door behind an actual closet? Maybe set up a decoy server / old school cheap coax / tape based security server? You can buy an old one for almost nothing, run 10 Coax cables into a wall plate and just have it powered up.
Hey thanks for chiming in!I'm going to have Comcast cable and Century Link DSL available. No FIOS or anything like that. I have to have a pretty stout broadband connection for work, so I'll get at least 20 down, but the upload speeds are what kill ya for Cloud backups. Yes, my media server will be local only... not going to host over the net. Going to be running a Plex server on top of my NAS, with Plex clients on the various devices (Roku's, iPad's, etc). [Side note: I will be able to access my Plex server from outside my home network, i.e. at a hotel or something, but have to be careful, as the ISP could view that as being a webhost, which I wouldn't be paying for] The local hardwired network will be gigabit, so lightning fast. I have a pretty nice dual band wireless system too, but very little will be on wireless. Mainly phones and ipads, and the printer, and the laptops when not docked.
So, Bobby...being the calculating trained warrior NCO that you are. Take the appropriate action, Execute!
your standard grunt level CQB is just putting rounds and rounds on scary stuff till it stops scaring you!
I really have no idea what's being talked about in this thread past you saying you want to wire the house up for surround sound and the man cave....
FiOS - Fiber Optic Service - super fast interweb speedNAS - networ attached storage - a computer full of hard drives for storing stuffPlex - a streaming device for when you store all your songs and video and pictures on one device and send them to others in the house whenever you want to use them....FUBAR - what happens when none of that stuff works...