Are you thinking about networking your house? Are you sick of trying to locate all of you coax cable splitters and check for loose connections and weak signals? Are you looking to improve your home network so that it easy to work on and future
proof? If you are looking for a good way to distribute cable and network, than you are looking at structured wiring. Structured wiring is a whole house wiring network system for communication, entertainment, security, and control of existing and future equipment.
The main concept of structured wiring is a distribution center. The distribution panel is generally located in the center of the house or up in the attic. All cables originate here in the distribution panel and are distributed directly to the individual room where the end devices are located. The panel usually contains Cable TV or Satelite TV, telephone service, and internet service. It can also contain security systems, whole house audio, home automation, web cam,IR distribution. The panel will also house the patch panels, switches, splitters and any signal amplifiers that are required.
This is very different from the old way of distribution, in which the coax cable RG-6 or RG-59 were daisy-chained throughout the house. This meant that cable splitters had to be installed in multiple locations. Since each splitter creates a drop in signal, and some locations passed through multiple splitters, there would be a television on one side of the house with bad signal and poor picture quality, while the on other side of the house the television pictures was fine. Internet connections using CAT5E or CAT6 can not even be daisy chained, and must be homeruned back to a switch or hub. If the distribution was not centralized, it would take multiple switches or hubs to distribute wired internet through out the house.
Structured wiring can be done in multiple ways. There are many types preconfigured structured wire bundles that usually consist of at leaset 2 RG-6 cables and 2 CAT6 cables. The RG-6 cables are used to distribute cable TV, Over the Air TV, or Satelite TV. The CAT5E or CAT6 is used to distribute the internet connection or local network especially in the case of Home Theater PCs with central audio and video distribution. These cables are multiconductor cables with 4 twisted pairs of solid copper wire. Telephone can easily reside on one pair leaving you with 3 more pairs for other connections.
The individual rooms would each have a small cannecion panel the size of a receptical cover that would have 2 coax connectors, a network connection and a telephone connection. These pieces are in kits and are completely modular, so they can be easily swapped, added or removed, depending on the desired connections. The cover generally holds 6 or 8 connectors. The following video shows the distribution panel and many of the components that can go inside of it.
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