Data cabling ... at least the conduits for it

Steve had one of his people come over on Saturday to help me with the "low voltage" part of the project. I guess low voltage is the designation that they give to anything that is not connected to the panel.

The job itself wasn't hard, yet the planning and decisions required a bunch of thought. In the end, we chose to install conduits to several locations in the project. We will pull cables in these conduits as needed. This way we can upgrade the cabling part of the house as technology and needs demand.

The hard decision was location, and the amount of cables that could be run. In the end, we placed at least 1 drop on every wall, 1 in the closet at the bottom, and 1 in the closet at the top. The ones in the closet provide us with options to put equipment in there. I envision that I will put an access point in each closet.

In the office we installed about the same, as I expect that much of the future will be wireless.

We ran 6 - 2" PVC conduits from the addition to the main house. These allow us to run cabling from the addition to the data closet without needing to crawl too much. Hopefully it is "future proof", at least for the next 5-10 years .... after that, who knows.