off topicthe home of tomorrow?

[dave morton]

we are doing a major renovation this winter.

gazing into your crystal balls, i am sure most would agree that wireless in 
some form or another, will be the future in homes (for streaming etc.), 
however, does anyone have any thoughts on what might be useful to include in 
our new house's hard-wiring?

i can envision a day when low voltage wiring will be the norm for lights etc 
but what
about 'wiring' (fibre, cat5 etc) in the home of the near future? is gigabit 
ethernet going to stay within the wires or will it become just another part 
of the radio spectrum as soon as bandwith glitches are cleared up?

since we have the opportunity to rewire from scratch, it seems a good time 
to consider what should be sticking out of the electrical boxes as the 
wiring goes in. perhaps nothing more than cat5 cable will be handy for most 
near-future needs...i don't know

i am pretty typical of most of us in this group, everything is hybrid: ADSL, 
wired linux servers, wifi debian laptops, bluetooth for blackberry , imac 
hardwired to a printer but remote-controlled, rogers cable, wirefree phones 
etc, etc, etc.

for sure... all this stuff will be connected differently in just a few years

the question is, can i hedge my bets on any coming trend(s)?

dave

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