The Wired House - Nerd Alert

Traditionally, an older house has many different wires strung all over the outside as, over the years, technicians install phone, cable, and other lines. As this is a pet peeve of mine, I decided to add structured wiring to the house. This means I have eliminated the unsightly external wires and now have everything hidden within the walls.

** Ahoy! Technical Jargon Ahead! **

The living room, kitchen, basement, and bedrooms will all have two quad-shield RG6 (coax) jacks and two Cat6 network jacks. The RG6 can be used for closed circuit TV, cable or satellite TV, RCA, component video, and composite video jacks.

The network jacks can handle 10GB transfer speeds for networking and streaming media plus it will be able to fully utilize Verizon's FIOS capabilities when DC finally gets FIOS. They can also be converted to phone lines or merged to create HDMI cables and other goodies. Scrumptious.

In the basement, there will be a panel with a nice clean look that centralizes the connections. And, since we will have DirecTV, I only have to run four RG6 wires to the panel and install a 16 port multiswitch to split the signal to all of the different rooms. If I get a big enough panel, I should be able to put the DSL or cable modem plus a router, hub, and electric so all of the wires can be hidden.

I will use single gang keystone wall plates for a nice clean look and compression fittings for the best connectivity of the RG6 cables.

Can't wait to get it all hooked up and making it look pretty.

You know you like it when I love talk nerdy.

Oh, the blue and black wires in the picture are the goods.