Building a network at home, what cables to use (if any)?
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My house is currently in ruins and am building it. While doing so, I wanted to design a home network. My main objectives are surfing and HD streaming.
The house is one-level, 100 sq/m (about 300 sq/ft), and one of the rooms is a safety room with Reinforced concrete walls.
About a year ago, when I started planning, I thought about putting Cat 6 STP cables in the walls and create network points in the rooms.
Should I use STP or FTP? I heard that STP is a problem regarding connectors and stuff. Is it really beneficial? Will it work OK if I transfer the wire together with the telephone line?
Should I maybe go with WLan and count on 802.11n to enable me to stream HD across the house? is 802.11n that good?
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