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Yeah, the builder wont budge on that one, so im going this weekend with the insulation in.

Well the builder we hired is an ass. He said he would give me a weeks notice, althogh he called today to tell me the electrical is done and he has the insulation guy coming tomorrow. So if i want to get it in there before the insulation i have to do it tonite. He said I could just pull the insulatio...

Well I have some, but the price of that cat5e box is negligable if there is a clear advantage to running the cat6/6e

Should I run cat6 or cat6e?

Whats the difference in expense, spending so much on the house I am on a fixed budget.

Well just spoke to the buidler and he is giving me a weeks notice to go in and run the wires i need to. He seems pretty skeptical to let me run the cat5 on my own, but he doesnt really seem to know much about cat5 or network wiring. Looks like i need to do some shopping for the wiring boxes and the ...

Allright, so can you recommend a wiring box and which materials I should use?



I already have a box of about 800-850 ft of pvc cat5e. any reason not to use that?

So you dont think the certification will do much of anything for me?

I just spoke to a local electric and telecom installer, basically told me there are no codes yet here. They are working on them, so he told me what to do to amke sure i would adhere to future codes and my ass would be covered. 1. Stay 8" from electrical wires, cross at 90 degrees wherever neces...

I'm going to go out on a limb and say you are nowhere near wher I am building. I am in Pennsylvania, Northeast area. I appreciate the brainstorming. I have run cabling for office networks before, but it was usually drop ceiling and wire ready walls, so thats the only thing i was worried about, resid...

Okay, id prob need it run to 9 rooms. All converging in the garage in a patch panel/networking box. Ideally what im thinking is have it in the house wherever there is a cable jack (htpc/xbox) and wherever there is a phone jack, for VoIP. I would also supplement that with an extra cat 5 jack in each ...

The builder has given me a price of 1200 to run cat 5 to all rooms. 4BR house. This seems high to me, is this reasonable?

cat5 to the wallplates for switches and to the area where the light fixutres would be? I was already planning on cat5 to each room for pc purposes.

I am planning to build a new home and all this home automation is very new but very intriguing to me. What I want to know is there any extra wiring to be run in the walls that is necessary to use the x10 module for lighting control etc...? Or is it just the boxes and switches that can be added after...