Signal distribution built in diy

Hi
I'm renovating a house and whilst I'm dry lining I thought I might as
well spread some points around. Ideally wallplates in 3 rooms for fm,
tv, sat, audio, phone and phone distribution.
Checking things out am I correct in thinking that fm,tv,sat signals
are normally combined at the dist. amp and then seperated at the
wallplate, and that if I get a humax foxsat this would respond to the
magic eye return feed. I've seen labgear amps and wallplates on
amazon, can you recommend alternatives.
Thanks in advance for any info.
Rog

rog wrote:
Hi
I'm renovating a house and whilst I'm dry lining I thought I might as
well spread some points around. Ideally wallplates in 3 rooms for fm,
tv, sat, audio, phone and phone distribution.
Checking things out am I correct in thinking that fm,tv,sat signals
are normally combined at the dist. amp and then seperated at the
wallplate, and that if I get a humax foxsat this would respond to the
magic eye return feed. I've seen labgear amps and wallplates on
amazon, can you recommend alternatives.
Thanks in advance for any info.
Rog

You need to provide two satellite feeds per outlet, for recording
devices. You could use a wallplate that accepts two cables; one feed
being triplexed by the plate and the other a simple feedthrough.
Alternatively you could fit two (Triax) triplexer modules in one frame.
If you use a two gang frame you can fit phone modules in there as well.
Have a look at the Triax modular outlet range.

Bill

On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 13:39:29 -0700 (PDT), rog wrote:

and that if I get a humax foxsat this would respond to the
magic eye return feed.

Don't think so - if you mean the Sky thingy.

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Geo

On Nov 5, 8:39*pm, rog wrote:
I'm renovating a house and whilst I'm dry lining I thought I might as
well spread some points around. Ideally wallplates in 3 rooms for fm,
tv, sat, audio, phone and phone distribution........ Rog

Hi Rog, your right that this is a worthwhile project, especially if
you have access to all the cable routes due to re-wiring. The
obvious rule is, be generous, tend to over-provide rather than make
outlets scarce.

Some points.

(a) Remember that distribution amps have finite numbers of outlets, it
is therefore not unreasonable to provide co-ax runs to outlets that
are only connected at the amp when required. In a domestic house, not
every TV outlet needs to be permanently live.

(b) The telephone cabling should where possible loop-through, rather
than branch-off, with the conductor being un-broken in the insulation
displacement terminals.

(c) Rather than have micro-filters at every phone outlet, have a
common micro-filter fitted flush with the NT5 BT termination.

(d) Consider running individual (or dual) Cat5 to each of your outlet
points, it isn't that expensive and can help where you want to run
devices such as printers separate from the wi-fi, or or to separate
the wi-fi transponder from the router.

/Rgds

tedjrr wrote:

(b) The telephone cabling should where possible loop-through, rather
than branch-off, with the conductor being un-broken in the insulation
displacement terminals.

That's interesting. Why that approach?

(c) Rather than have micro-filters at every phone outlet, have a
common micro-filter fitted flush with the NT5 BT termination.

The one small constraint with this approach is that you're no longer
sending the ADSL signal around your property, so you can't move your
modem to another location - it has to plug in to the master socket.
Not normally a problem - just something to bear in mind.

SteveT

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Steve Thackery wrote:
tedjrr wrote:

(b) The telephone cabling should where possible loop-through, rather
than branch-off, with the conductor being un-broken in the insulation
displacement terminals.

That's interesting. Why that approach?

(c) Rather than have micro-filters at every phone outlet, have a
common micro-filter fitted flush with the NT5 BT termination.

The one small constraint with this approach is that you're no longer
sending the ADSL signal around your property, so you can't move your
modem to another location - it has to plug in to the master socket.
Not normally a problem - just something to bear in mind.

a new house near here had an open day so I went to look. In the cupboard
under the stairs were patch panels for aerials and CAT 5. The ADSL modem
was also located there.

I put in a uhf/vhf aerial patch panel in the 1960s when
decorating/renovating our house. This was in an upstairs buit-in cupboard.

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Steve Thackery wrote:

The one small constraint with this approach is that you're no longer
sending the ADSL signal around your property....

Just to add to this, you could do what I did in my last property: split
the ADSL and telephony at the master socket, but then run BOTH around
your property by running them in separate pairs in a CAT5e cable. It
works really well.

I don't bother now, though - my phones are all DECT. There seems
little reason to run wired phones unless you live in a mansion.

SteveT

In article ,
Steve Thackery wrote:
Steve Thackery wrote:

The one small constraint with this approach is that you're no longer
sending the ADSL signal around your property....

Just to add to this, you could do what I did in my last property: split
the ADSL and telephony at the master socket, but then run BOTH around
your property by running them in separate pairs in a CAT5e cable. It
works really well.

I don't bother now, though - my phones are all DECT. There seems
little reason to run wired phones unless you live in a mansion.

or, as I do, in a house (1911) with very dense bricks.

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charles wrote:

or, as I do, in a house (1911) with very dense bricks.

Yep, fair point. Mind you, of all the domestic wireless technologies
I've tried, DECT does seem to be the most robust of them all.

SteveT

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Steve Thackery wrote:
charles wrote:

or, as I do, in a house (1911) with very dense bricks.

Yep, fair point. Mind you, of all the domestic wireless technologies
I've tried, DECT does seem to be the most robust of them all.

I have a phone that works 60 yards down the garden but fades out indoors
less than 5 yards away after passing through a decent brick wall.

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