ᐅ Electrical Planning – Power Outlets

Mycraft schrieb:
and IPTV is still very much in its infancy, I won’t even start on that

at the latest when Sky activates pairing for all cards, it will become commercially viable

Sebastian79 schrieb:
I am familiar with the techniques, but fewer and fewer people want radiation sources inside their homes these days. So this is more suitable for low-voltage applications – there are some concepts for electric vehicles, but those are still in their early stages.

Today, and certainly for the coming years and decades, conventional wiring is done on a large scale. But if you don’t need it, that’s fine.

Wiring will still be done traditionally tomorrow as well. That’s true. Everything else is speculation.

You can do a lot with wireless solutions, but these are usually more of makeshift setups. In new builds, it’s better to install wiring – interference, electromagnetic pollution, and resource overload are just a few relevant issues.

This has little to do with stagnation or even ignorance...

tomtom79 schrieb:
at the latest when Sky activates its pairing on all cards, it becomes commercial

So far, luckily, I have managed to avoid this – I’ve been blocking it successfully. If that’s no longer possible, cancellation will be the next step...

I have coaxial cables installed everywhere, but my HDD receiver in the living room also streams over the network to and from various types of devices (for example, it reads/writes to a NAS or FTP server, streams live or recordings to a tablet, etc.). In principle, having just network/Wi-Fi in every room would have been enough. However, this makes you quite dependent on that one device (which is why I initially decided to install coaxial cables everywhere—you never know how you might want to set things up later).

Otherwise, I’m not a fan of wireless technology. Despite advanced technology, range and transmission quality still drop significantly in solid building structures when you are a bit further away. Wi-Fi is usually still good enough for browsing, but if you want to do more (for example, retrieve large files from a NAS or perform a backup over LAN), then Wi-Fi is noticeably slower and less reliable than a wired network.

Pandrion schrieb:
To add something about power outlets: We currently live in a rental apartment with 3 outlets per room, an old building. Strangely, it has never bothered us. We also never thought about wanting more outlets because we simply don’t need that many.

First of all, you can see (which I appreciate) how personal the perception of these topics really is.

Great attitude from you: You know what you want, what you need, and you put that into practice! Perfect, because then it fits your situation.

In the rental apartment, I would have been happy to have 3 outlets per room back then. I was also glad when I finally took several boxes of those extension cords to the recycling center. They looked at me like I was some kind of oddball.

You plan this for yourself and your house.
Additional electrical installations are expensive, that I have also learned........ (but I wanted more here, as my allergy to extension cords has become quite pronounced...laugh).

Best regards,
Thorsten

PS:
WIFI/LAN: I have LAN connections where I found them useful (study, TV/living room). The WIFI here reaches a maximum of 35 Mbit/s, while the wired connection delivers 98 Mbit/s (which definitely doesn’t spoil the TV experience...).