Re: residential network systems
hbiss restates many of the reasons wireless networking is so popular in finished homes. the cost and bother of running cabling is way out of proportion to what a wireless lan [mostly plug-in parts] costs. my wireless router was about $25US and the pcmcia card for my notebook was only $45US.
************awwt, thanks for your reply.
i sometimes need to read the board more carefully. when i suggested $100-200 was on the high side, i was thinking one cat5e drop or even a cat5e + cat3 tel. truthfully, when we install our preferred configuration, 2 x rg6 + 2 x cat5e, we are charging residential clients $120 US plus the cost of the head end termination equipment. the bigger cans are a couple hundred bucks.
keep in mind when you go this route it really increases your real-estate needs at the head end, since you are effectively quadrupling the number of wires coming in.
we rarely run fibre in homes, but we recently saw a custom home built for a consular application that had 100% fibre to the endpoint construction for all communications and surveillance circuits. this was for eavesdropping protection.
local ahj's are split on plenum cable in t-bar, but that is another subject. we almost never see it in homes. some municipalities are fine with riser in t-bar.
certified jobs are, of course rare on the residential side, but that is more expensive as well.
that link to the on-q pdf worked fine for me. no idea what happened there...
james