At first, we were stuck with either:ġ) running everything off wifi (which due to the construction of the room range and connectivity were shit). This is in a building located a block away from our university - it's 2010, we really need to have rooms that have access to ethernet jacks. Sadly, there were no RJ-45 jacks, just the telephone jacks throughout the whole house.
We were the first tenants in these apartments, brand new - they were finishing the complex as we moved in! This was the exact scenario in a block of apartments that had just been built a few years back. It really is a fools choice to NOT add cat5/6 to any build.
The ones who DID do it, I usually never heard from them unless they wanted to add stuff or upgrade. And I remind them that it was in the original quote which they decline and now it will cost 4 times as much :-). The ones that didn't do it always called me a year later to bitch and complain about me not having enough Internet ports. It might add $2k onto the price of their 6 bar, 5bath house, but we are talking about 2k on to a 500k house. I used to consult on large home A/V installations and I told every customer to have 2 cat5/6 cables run to every location they might want a TV.
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Also, consider that cat5 is extremely versatile with technologies like HDbase-t that will eventually be the "one cable to rule them all" with power, Internet, and TV signal all from a single low voltage cable. Especially now with services like u verse or directv with set top boxes that run on either coax or cat5 it's makes no sense NOT to do it. There exists cabling that is cat5/6 stuck next to coax cable called siamese cabling ( ) and since most coax is (should be) run to a central splitter, it's running the same cable to the same place. If it is done during the building stages, the cost is quite negligible.
I find it so completely messed up that both housing developers and ISPs basically say "just use wifi", especially when the entertainment industry is moving fast towards streaming services.Ĭan anyone with experience building houses, working for developers, or working for an ISP chime in?
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How much would it cost housing developers to install CAT5 in every room of a new house, and how much would it have costed in the 90s? To me it seems kind of stupid that Wifi isn't considered a last resort, was it really so hard to predict that streaming media was the future? For anyone that plays games or does a lot of downloading you'll understand how crappy wifi really is for anything besides browsing the web. I've struggled with WIFI my whole life because I've never lived in a place that was wired with ethernet cable. I noticed all the phone jacks were actually wired with CAT5, so I was able to put RJ45 jacks on and wire my desktop & HTPC. I recently moved into a new apartment and the building is only 4 years old.
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