I’ve finally started cabling my house (by alaric)
Namely, I want to get Ethernet into my workshop. My office is cramped, and having my electronics workbench in there doesn't help, so I want it moved down to the workshop. But it'll need a network connection for the computer that programs FPGAs and microcontrollers.
The workshop is another outbuilding, butting onto the house. Happily, it's just behind the wall I've just moved all the core network gear to, and already has a hole through which power cables run. The hole looks pretty tight, though, so I may have another long drilling session to face...
But once I have cabling into there, I can also run it (through a pipe) out of the front of the workshop and under the bush along to the drive, where the nice man who dug the drive up to run the new culvert helpfully laid me a pipe to run cables through, then on the other side of the drive, along under another bush to the waterfall. Then I need to find a way to go over or under the stream, then under the lawn where the millpond was when the place was a working watermill, and through the cast iron pipe that once carried the water to the wheel, and thus out into the old millroom, which is part of the main house. Then I can put another switch in there and run Ethernet up to my aunt's office to give her computers access to our network, and the Internet connection - and run a pair of my military surplus field telephones over another circuit to give us an intercom capability. I was previously considering doing this by running a steel cable from my office to hers, as they're both on the first floor on opposite sides of the driveway, then slinging a pipe carrying cables beneath that, but doing that properly and safely would require some quite hairy drilling two stories off of the ground - which is an alarming prospect.
Building Maintenance, Sci/Tech | alaric | 
Sun 1st Jun 2008 11:55 pm
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By duncan, Mon 2nd Jun 2008 @ 8:56 am
good luck, i laid cat6 throughout my house when the central heating was upgraded - as the plumber had the floorboards up i thought it wise to lay cables. so i decided to put two cables into every room, from the "data cabinet" - where a hot water tank was in the annex. in the end needed rather a large hole to fit 10 cables through - but luckily my plumber had all the required drillbits to hand.
still almost a year on, and ive only wired up 2 of the cables - the patch panel is still in its box awaiting a rainy day when im motivated enough to do the trunking, fix the boxes and test everything.