Telephone and Cable outlets for Apartments

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steve66

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I'm designing some apartments, and I'm wondering what to show for cable and telephone/data outlets? I don't do a lot of residential, and I usually don't show anything for Cable TV.

I'm thinking of showing every data outlet location with both a coax cable outlet and an Cat 6 RJ45 jack. And maybe having one plain old telephone jack in the kitchen?

Then all the cables (coax and Cat 6) could be ran back to one location that would have a coax splitter, and an receptacle for a router or network switch. That location would also have one coax and one Cat 6 cable ran back to the main telecom service.

Does that sound like it would give the apartments what they would need for Cable TV, phone, and internet?
 
It would work reasonably well for cable TV. One location for splitter per apartment and one home run to central cable termination area. Use good quality quad shield coax like what the cable company uses.
Some multi-room cable or satellite setups require a second cable from main box to other room, which id hard to provide. Prewire for satellite is unlikely to work well.
CAT6 is good for data, but most installations these days are interconnected by WiFi, not hard wired.

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Most all plans I get on apartments have two combo coax/cat5 in each room, routed to an MDU enclosure in the apartment, and one each coax and cat5 going out near the meter stack for that building.

None have ever shown RJ45 jacks, just a plate with an F-connector and RJ11.

These days dish and DirecTV have equipment that will work with a single coax to each location for DVR's. They're also moving into wireless equipment.

Anyway, I would get input from the owner if they want to spend money for networks inside each unit. Usually they'll just provide a phone jack and the tenant can connect a wireless router. If they are going to provide a wired network, you'll need a suitably sized enclosure for the switch and network ports. The small MDU enclosures generally just have room for a coax splitter and a phone 110 board.


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