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Networking and Telephone

Twenty low voltage wallplates are installed throughout the house and guesthouse. Each wallplate has (from top to bottom):

  • an RJ45 connection with Cat6 wiring for the local arean network (LAN)
  • a coax connection with RG6 Quad wiring for video or digital audio
  • an RJ45 connection with Cat6 wiring for telephone

Internet Service: Currently the house uses DSL over a phone line to access the Internet. The phone service enters the house outside the garage near the electric meter. Four wires of a Cat6 cable take the signal to the wiring cabinet in the home theatre. A DSL filter separates the phone and DSL signals and the DSL signal goes to the DSL modem. From the modem it is connected to a D-Link DGS-1024D switch. Each wallplate is connected to the switch with Cat6 cabling using the following port numbers:

  1. Main Floor Master Bedroom #1 South
  2. Main Floor Master Bedroom #1 North
  3. Main Floor Master Bathroom #1 East
  4. Family Room East
  5. Kitchen South
  6. Living Room North
  7. West Office #2 Floor (not cut-in--pending placement of desk)
  8. West Office #2 West
  9. East Office #1 North
  10. East Office #1 West
  12. Southeast Upstairs Bedroom #2 East
  13. Southwest Upstairs Bedroom #3 East
  14. Southwest Upstairs Bedroom #3 North
  15. Upstairs Changing Room South
  16. Upstairs Master Bedroom #4 South
  17. Upstairs Master Bedroom #4 North
  18. Upstairs Master Bathroom #4 West
  20. Downstairs Playroom West
  21. Home Theatre East
  22. Guesthouse

Cable and Satellite: Internet service could also be provided over cable TV or from satellite services.
Cable TV is available at the pull box beside Suzanne Culley's driveway. Underground conduit and a pull rope have been installed to pull cable to a terminal west of the garage near the electric meter. An RG6 Quad cable runs in the crawlspace from here to the wiring cabinet in the home theater.
A satellite dish could be mounted on the second floor roof by the solar panels. Two RG6 Quad cables run from the second floor attic to the wiring cabinet in the home theatre

Telephone: The two separate phone lines from the DSL filters are recombined into one Cat6 wire with an RJ45 plug to connect to a patch panel in the home theater wiring cabinet. The patch panel port numbers match the network numbering listed above. When a patch cable is connected to a particular port, the corresponding wallplate will provide two phone lines on the lower RJ-45 port using the USOC 2 pair (T568A) standard. This standard is commonly used in commercial phone systems. For residential phones, four special RJ-45 to RJ-11 converter cables are available.