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    • CommentAuthorpmagowan
    • CommentTimeFeb 8th 2012
     
    I think I will probably go down the mains route unless I need to rip up floors for another reason. I am likely to need only 2 or three so shouldn't break the bank. My usage is currently not high but I appreciate it could change in the future (but then the same could be said for cat5). Most of this is a side issue as i haven't really got to that stage in my refurb and there is a possibility that I will need to rip up floors and some walls anyway in which case I will install Cat5 while there.
    • CommentAuthorSeret
    • CommentTimeFeb 8th 2012
     
    Posted By: pmagowanWould this be too much for this system to handle?


    Nope. I've not used IP CCTV, but I can't imagine it'd chew too much bandwidth. I think they're just MJPEG arent they?

    The only other option is for me to rip up all the floors and walls and run new cat5 cable everywhere.


    Not necessarily. It can be run pretty unobtrusively through trunking, inside cupboards, behind coving, through the loft, etc. There's probably only a couple of rooms you need to wire up, so it doesn't have to be a big job. I've just reconfigured my network and managed to sneak most of it around the house pretty unobtrusively with only a couple of holes drilled and some adhesive trunking.

    Unless all your gear is located right by a socket you'd still have Cat5 trailing around the room anyway, so you'd have to do something to hide that. However, the whole point of powerline is convenience, so if it suits what you need then by all means go for it.
    • CommentAuthorpmagowan
    • CommentTimeFeb 8th 2012
     
    Most gear needs to be near a socket for power anyway. I am probably going to change bedroom in the house to an area outside the wifi so it may be a good stop-gap option until such time as I could run cable. I am not an intensive user and 100mbs (i think) wifi does me fine so far (a bit of iplayer, t'internet).
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    Posted By: Seret
    Posted By: pmagowanWould this be too much for this system to handle?


    Nope. I've not used IP CCTV, but I can't imagine it'd chew too much bandwidth. I think they're just MJPEG arent they?


    I agree, it should be fine for what you describe. As a retrofit it looks a good (if expensive solution), I just wouldn't go for it in a new build.

    In fact, thinking about it, I probably wouldn't go for it in a retrofit - I'd prefer to have the plugin adaptors that you could move around and replace later if you needed higher bandwidth or if one of them went wrong, and that would be a quarter of the price. Wouldn't look so pretty though.

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