Prewire new home for hd

[Todd]

I am about to start construction on a new home in plant city and want to make sure I prewire the hose correctly for Hd. I currently have Directv, curious about voom but love the nfl sunday ticket. Anyone have any suggestions on smartest way to prewire home??? I was thinking 2 rg6 and 1 cat 6 to each outlet, with no splitters. Am I going to need 4 rg6 going outside, or 5, 1 for local ant.???? Please help!!! Currently also have terk tv55 and live in valrico. Should I keep this ant. or is there a better one out? Anyone have opinions on Directv vs. Voom?

[Dknow]

Are you building this house so that it has a wiring hub in a closet somewhere?

[mgd2win]

Todd, you will probable get a alot of ideas from this board on how to handle this subject.

I would go with a structured cableing system, basically all of the cabling to the individual rooms come from a single control box in the garage, closet etc. This acts as a central meet-me-point (garage is probable the best location) for all your incoming services Phone, Cable, Satellite, Home LAN etc. for distribution through out the house. Depending on your budget and your goals you can get a lower end systems at Lowes & Home Depot or if you want a higher end solution visit Sound Advice or other local higher end A/V stores. Some of the higher end systems actually come with a bundled cable that includes mutiple RG6, Cat 5 and even Fiber Optic cable in one cable and then terminates on a very nice panel in every room. Research on the web and you will find all kinds of options and structured systems available.

As for your D* question, the current HD dish requires 4 cable runs but with the planned launch of more satellites who knows what the future dishs will require....FYI...by 2007 it has been mandated by the FCC that all satellite providers ENTIRE programming be received by a single dish....What I would recommend doing though is installing a PVC conduit (or 2 depending on size) from your control box to the outside access point were your dish & antennas will be. This will make it very easy for you to pull any new cables that might be required in the future.

Well good luck.

[Todd]

mgd thanks for the advise, I do plan on going with a central box in garage, I saw the all in one cable but the rg6 is only sweep tested to 2.4ghz and they have new cable sweep tested to 3.0 so I figured since I was going to do all the prewiring myself I don't mind running multiple cables as long as they are the correct cables. That is a good idea about the pvc, don't they carry a flexible type tubing designed for that? If they do I don't know where they carry it. I was kind of hesitant on going to Sound Advice because I want to do the work myself, I'd rather spend the extra money on quality cables than labor :D

[CANDY76MAN]

mgd thanks for the advise, I do plan on going with a central box in garage, I saw the all in one cable but the rg6 is only sweep tested to 2.4ghz and they have new cable sweep tested to 3.0 so I figured since I was going to do all the prewiring myself I don't mind running multiple cables as long as they are the correct cables. That is a good idea about the pvc, don't they carry a flexible type tubing designed for that? If they do I don't know where they carry it. I was kind of hesitant on going to Sound Advice because I want to do the work myself, I'd rather spend the extra money on quality cables than labor :D

that grey pipe that is in the electrical department works well for running wireing later, it has 90's that have a long sweeping curve rather than a tight turn like regular pvc pipes have...and I think you can get that stuff up to 2 inches in diameter....and the grey pipe is much more flexible than white pvc pipe.

[jaymer]

might i suggest you check these guys out:

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once there, do a search on STRUCTURED and there's a book on the subject.
A few weeks ago, when someone started getting Fios installed, they asked him if he had "Stuctured Wiring" in his house... hehe, most of us didn't even have a clue that there was a name for it. But its what was mgd2win suggested and you already knew about also.
They have lots of equipment related to the subject.