New House Wiring Question

[dogwood24]

I am building a house and I am about to put up sheetrock so I wanted to check and make sure that I wired my house correctly before I covered the walls.

I have 6 rooms that I ran RG6 cables to although I currently only have a 2 room DVR 625. I ran 2 RG6's from the structured panel to the two extra rooms, the kithen, and the bouns room.

In the Living room and Master Bedroom I ran 1 RG6 to the panel and then 1 RG6 from the Living room to the Master Bedroom. The reason I did this is I figured all the installer would have to do when I moved in would be run 2 RG6's from the dish to the living room tv and then the cable that goes to the Master Bedroom would already be done.

But by doning this all of the other cable runs would not be connected in any way, is there anyway of taking advantage of the other prewired locations without buying extra recievers?

[eahmjh]

I am building a house and I am about to put up sheetrock so I wanted to check and make sure that I wired my house correctly before I covered the walls.

I have 6 rooms that I ran RG6 cables to although I currently only have a 2 room DVR 625. I ran 2 RG6's from the structured panel to the two extra rooms, the kithen, and the bouns room.

In the Living room and Master Bedroom I ran 1 RG6 to the panel and then 1 RG6 from the Living room to the Master Bedroom. The reason I did this is I figured all the installer would have to do when I moved in would be run 2 RG6's from the dish to the living room tv and then the cable that goes to the Master Bedroom would already be done.

But by doning this all of the other cable runs would not be connected in any way, is there anyway of taking advantage of the other prewired locations without buying extra recievers?


If it where me doing what you are doing I would run 2 cables to every area, just in case you ever move or get another DVR then you will have it wired.

[dogwood24]

Well I had read all about structure wiring and how everyone said run 2 RG6's to each location, but I wasn't sure how everthing connected together.

[geoff]

I ran 5 runs of RG6 to my main entertainment center in my living room, and 1 run to everywhere else in the house. I have a 721 and a 625 in the entertainment center (2 runs to each receiver from the switch) and then the rf outs on both receivers (one on channel 3, one on channel 63) go back to the structured wiring panel on the 5th run, through an amp/splitter to every room in the house. That way I can watch either receiver anywhere in the house, and have both receivers hooked to the surround sound system.

Geoff

[GrayCalx]

If it where me doing what you are doing I would run 2 cables to every area, just in case you ever move or get another DVR then you will have it wired.

I'm building a house right now and thats what I had done. Everything will come into the basement to a "media hub". From there I run one bundle of cables to every room. The bundle holds : 1 phone, 1 ethernet, and 2 coax.

If you have the option of doing this it seems like its going to work out really well (though admittedly it isn't hooked up yet since its still under construction). Since everything goes through the hub I can switch everything down there without rewiring anything.

[dogwood24]

I guess that is about what I did I will have 2 runs of rg6 to the main tv from the dish and then from there I will have 1 run back to the panel where it could be split to the other rooms.

And I also have 1 run from the main tv to the master bedroom in case I wanted to bypass the panel and all of the splitters.

[flatus]

Besides the RG6, I would recommend running some Cat5e (or cat6 if you can find it) to all those locations as well. Besides using it for networking, it also works well as telephone, audio, composite, maybe even component (havent tried that) cable.
Lowes, radio shack, etc sell modular wall plates for all of these types of connections. Wireless may be the future, but that day isn't here yet.

[bairdjc]

If it were me (and I've thought alot about this subject), I'd run at least 2 feeds (each of RG6 and Cat5... be sure to get the good stuff that complies with frequency requirements) to each room from a centralized distribution somewhere (a closet or basement). Then, run 4 or so (again, both ca5 and rg6) from the same centralized location to where you anticipate an entertainment center. IF you wanna get extra fancy, you can instead rough in wire runs (basically a tube which makes fishing cables later easier).

this way, all your patching/routing is done from one centralized location rather than stringing all sorts of wires between rooms. this is also handy for the cat5 wire as this can also be used for multiple phone lines (or dsl, whatever) and using a patch panel makes it very easy to "change" a jack in any room from phone to data and back.

the centralized location will also allow you to condense network distribution equipment (router, modem, whatever)

[dogwood24]

I have a centralized panel in an upstairs closet and I did run 2 cat5e runs to each room also. That way I can have a phone line for the satelight and a hard wired ethernet connection for online gaming or etc..

If I run the RF out on the dvr to the panel wont all of the other tv have to watch the same channel though?

[GrayCalx]

bairdjc made a point I had forgotten to mention in my post. I had my builder install a 2" pvc pipe running from the basement to the attic, so if i need to fish anything in the future I could run it through that conduit. I'd definitely recommend that.

[SD4Life]

My parent's are building a house and they currently have E*. Right now, we are at the wiring stage. They are going to have flat panel TV's on the wall and fire place. Anybody know any way to hide the receiver? They aren't planning on having a bookshelf or anything so the receiver would be all by itself somewhere. They figure since they are building a new house, they want everything done right....which sucks at times because I'm helping them build it.