off topicthe home of tomorrow?

[John Myshrall]

dave morton wrote:
> 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
After just finishing hard wiring my basement and future office / theater 
with Cat 5 (upper house is already) ,  I felt that if I could have made 
a conduit to run wiring it would have made more sense. Who knows what 
tomorrow brings.

Keep in mind what may be bleeding edge may get easily replace by a 
smarter technology.

My Advice is give yourself options.

John


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