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Originally Posted by Uncle Peter
If you're really unlucky and the house builder has cut cost corners you might have Paramount Partition walls which are basically plasterboard sandwiches separated by a cardboard honeycomb or lattice in lieu of proper studs as a load bearing mechanism.
These things are a pain in the backside to drop a cable down as you have to force your puller rod down through it. This type of wall was popular in the 70s and 80s but some builders were still using them up until recently.
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I've replaced a couple of the plug sockets with ones that come with USB ports and had a look behind the wall box, couldn't see any honeycomb like that so I think I am okay. I might procure one of those inspection cams to do some more exploring to get an idea of what I'm in for (I can always sell it on ebay afterwards).
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Originally Posted by Hugh
Having implemented network installs and upgrades on Corporates and Universities,I understand this, but I was asking "his" reasons...
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As has been mentioned, it's partly future proofing. We're hitting the cusp of gigabit internet access with some users already being able to get it, but to be able to take advantage of that across the network, gigabit networking will be a bottleneck. Even though 10G ethernet in the home is a couple of years away for even heavy users such as myself, right now my needs go beyond what a powerline can give me, I need at least
actual gigabit and the only way to do that is Ethernet. So I may as well run Ethernet that's capable of 10G, even if there's a few intermediate steps to 2.5G/5G in the meantime.
I do stream 4k from my NAS, which is currently next to the media player but I'd much prefer to move all that equipment elsewhere.