Hi melting. Good to hear someone thinking about cabling in a double storey home!! We're about to start building similar (any time now...) and I tried to plan mine out…

Sorry to hear that melfordgurl.
Best of luck with what ever you do decide to build.
Cheers.

Hi jessime, thanks for the info, very helpful!
I'm beginning to see this as the common theme, and I can understand they'd like to bend you over for as much as…

Just wondering how your tender appointment went melfurdgurl?
Is everything going ahead?
Best of luck.

Thanks OurLindrum52, appreciate the feedback.
Lights sound like the general way to do things, especially getting the layout right on the ground floor.
Curious as to how they ran the cabling in…

Hope this thread has not died!!
We've just put the $1k down with BigM as we want to build a Duxton 35 (with an…

Lol, totally agree. Combined with sickbeard and it's a beautiful thing indeed!
Haven't used the upnp 'play to' function yet, but can see it…

Guilty as charged on the XBMC nut JMAP! We love it for all our tv/movie viewing. Apple TVs are nice and small & silent, and get great WAF too!
Hmm,…

Ah, maybe I don't understand conduits then! My assumption was getting the builder to put a single conduit down the wall through the noggins so I can drop in cables…

Ouch!
All that Hills gear ($$$ I assume) is more supposed 'smart wiring' than anything to do with NBN, so that's not all NBN cost. You…

Mind sharing some details please?
How much were you quoted? And for what exactly?
And are you building in a greenfields estate?

Interesting JMAP.
As we look to build, I've been thinking about what to do to prepare for NBN.
Btw, I'm in suburbia, and won't get NBN for years fwiw.
What I'm planning is…

You do not need cat6 for NBN.
Cat5 certainly does send data in both directions (the cable is made up of pairs for sending & receiving).
There should be minimal price difference…

Great to hear you have it sorted! Cat6 is best if you can.
Just don't expect to be buffer free just becaue you use cat6, as that's traffic control and hardware…

Very little difference now, as cat5e can do 1Gbps, and that's all you get in standard residential computers & networking equipment, so in some regards that's a fair statement.
But the…

Something to consider for multiroom audio - I've been thinking about this for a while, and come up with a solution.
In short, Linux server + specific alsa config file meakes…

Will Metricoin allow you to get your own cabler in, or just put in some holes and run some draw/pull lines for putting in later yourself?
Looking at them for a…

Nice link there for cat5e vs cat6 - did not realise there was a difference in the connector, but assume that's more the design of it? I've seen some…