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Originally Posted by nerrrad
All rooms will require video, i think i am going to settle on cat6 shielded twisted pair.. or possibly look into fibre optic (im not sure how the network will cope with 10 rooms all streaming movies across, whilst downloading and browsing the net all at once, any ideas? will cat six be sufficient?)
Thanks for the help
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as druchii said, Cat5
e is perfectly good enough for 1 gigabit, and infact it's even upto 10Gigabit today, however if you intend upgrading the feeding kit in the future just go for Cat6 and be done with it.
the thing that everyone seems to forget is to run more than you need right now,and so not run out later... if you were to add more networking/storage kit
http://www.freenas.org/ for instance.
you can also buy off the shelf cat splitters that convert the cat wire into two seperate RJ45 feeds from one cable, but its far easyer to just run two feeds to every single room, including the loft as you re-wire.
dont skimp on the fastest router/switch or even two, one for each end of your run just incase you want to change your main server room/location later.
for instance from your under stairs store to your loft room for housing a wireless 11N/WiMax router (for better/best coverage)and NAS (Network Attached Storage) kit.
and dont forget to always
multicast your video if you want to save bandwidth and yet serve several LAN machines/devices at the same time with the video, something like VLC will Multicast several DVD streams just fine.
iv not as yet tested a/several HD-DVD/BR multicast feeds on 100Mbit ,but cant see a problem while browsing etc.