RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] home rewiring: the next to final chapter?

["Matt Ross" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> Getting to the cat5, I presume I can take the two cables and make
> one into a standard phone line for now, and the other into an
> ethernet port.  Then, whenever I need to, I can move the phone over
> and use the whole second wire for whatever.  Or, is there any reason
> to put everything in the one cable to start and save the second
> "virgin" one for a rainy day?  If it helps any to know, I've got
> two single gang boxes in all locations to play with.  OK, so to
> connect up the phones, I've got some choices to deal with.  Those of
> you who have seen my wiring hell (see:
>
>   http://www.missouri.edu/~kingjw/wiring.html

Any objections to boring holes through the support beams?  Of course, I'm
going off how they wired my house originally, this may be a very bad idea.
Check with someone with sense before taking my advice.

> At the moment, it looks like I can do the faceplates in the various
> rooms for surprisingly cheap using either Panduit or Hubbell stuff,
> and nothing beats a TV splitter for the low cost cable TV
> distribution solution, but I'm less than sure about phones.

Those wall sockets are a lot easier to do than the plugs.  The ones I've
seen (at Lowes) snap together, rather than needing any special tool.

> Oh yeah: a simple question.  How long a "tail" should I leave coming
> out of the boxes before the drywall dudes come in?  I've got very
> very very long tails now, since I didn't want to screw up in the
> other direction, but I don't want stuff to get in the way...

As much as you can stuff into the box.

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