Deciding What to Include

What do you want your Structured Wiring to include? If you are trying to go the Do It Yourself route here you first need to ask yourself what you think your personal capabilities are. I'll do my best to expose you to the details of doing things yourself here and include links to other who may be able to do a better job of explaining things. Before you invest your time and money in this you should be reasonably sure you will be able to do this kind of work. You should be good with tools and have some experience with running wiring in a house. Having run power lines through walls to add an outlet is good background. Doing the same for telephone or cable TV is good. Don't bite off more than you can chew - but then again - don't underestimate your ability to learn something new.

• Data Networking
• Video Wiring
• Telephone
• Home Audio
• Fiber Optics
• Infrared Control
• Video Surveillance
• Wireless Networking

The twisting of the cable reduces electrical radio frequency interference which causes crosstalk. Also, the wires are insulated with a plastic (FEP) that has low optical dispersion, that is, the dielectric constant of the plastic does not depend greatly on frequency. Special attention also has to be paid to minimizing impedance mismatches at connection points.