Comments on: My home network setup http://blog.richard.parker.name/2008/08/31/my-home-network-setup/ C#, Cloud Computing and Tech-miscellany Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:20:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: My Home Tech: Summer 2011 Roundup « Richard Parker's blog http://blog.richard.parker.name/2008/08/31/my-home-network-setup/#comment-673 Tue, 05 Jul 2011 18:33:34 +0000 http://brainthings.wordpress.com/?p=16#comment-673 [...] long, long time ago, in a blog post far, far away, I documented some of my home tech in a piece that described how it all connected together. The [...]

]]> By: Richard http://blog.richard.parker.name/2008/08/31/my-home-network-setup/#comment-629 Mon, 28 Mar 2011 07:46:33 +0000 http://brainthings.wordpress.com/?p=16#comment-629 Hi Peter,

Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment. Actually, your comment has reminded me that I really need to update this post since I’ve changed a lot in the time since it was written!

I too am now CAT6 to all the rooms and there are now four ports next to the TV (instead of the two previously), because we’ve now a Media Center PC there, a Freesat box with an ethernet connection and the Blu-ray player which also has an ethernet connection.

HDbaseT looks to be somewhat of a “magic bullet” solution, but my experience of looking through the hardware offerings so far is that it is very expensive and few mainstream companies seem to be manufacturing devices for it at this time.

I’m not sure how quickly it’ll catch on but I think for now the CAT6 solutions, which are far more prevalent and offer more hardware choice is probably still the best way to go.

Thanks,

Richard.

]]> By: PVM http://blog.richard.parker.name/2008/08/31/my-home-network-setup/#comment-628 Sat, 26 Mar 2011 19:33:59 +0000 http://brainthings.wordpress.com/?p=16#comment-628 Hi Richard,
I have also gone down a similar route to you, I had to rewire my house and decided to put in CAT6 outlets to all rooms including two at TV and a further 3 in and around kitchen/dining room. I have a Lexmark E120n printer, 12 port CAT6 wall mounted 3P tested patch panel and Virgin 20Meg broadband coupled to a Belkin pre N router.
I have a Squeezebox Duet and will be getting Virgin Tivo soon. Sorry to go on a bit, I also have a Acer Revo Aspire R3610 with 4Gb ram and 500 Gb hard drive. I am looking forward to HDbaseT to go more main stream and wondered what your opinion is on HDbaseT and if you see the possibilities of using it for POE speakers and other gadgets.
Thank you for your great blogs.
Peter

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