Finishing Basement - Need cabling advice

[brazenmedia]

I'm getting ready to sheetrock over the location where cabling comes in outside from the dish on the side of my house in the basement.

Currently there are two receivers connected to my dish, I 'think' it will support 4 total receivers. I don't have the model number available right now.

I have two new outlets that I ran cable from...my question is how should these two outlets be connected? I forsee these two outlets sharing one receiver.

I ran a separate rg6 cable from each outlet...should I just run both cables outside and weatherproof so they can be tied into the dish later, or should some type of splitter/switch be installed and everything be connected inside the house? It will probably be a while until the rooms are completely finished and TV is needed.

This is in a closet, so I could also create some type of access panel in the ceiling for future access, although not sure my wife would like that idea

Advice?

 

[Kru83]

run all the cable to 1 single location, try to keep it inside the basement in the closet...if not outside is good too as long as you get weather boots on the connectors you will be aight.

 

[KAB]

run all the cable to 1 single location, try to keep it inside the basement in the closet...if not outside is good too as long as you get weather boots on the connectors you will be aight.

Another idea, frame a box large enough to work inside easily, then eventually put on a hinged door...an access.

 

[ccg3]

Another thing to do is run flex pipe to any location that you can feed from the closet. It's a little over board, but you will always have access to change out cableing or add something down the road. I think if you have phone, 2 RG-6 cables to each location you should be good, but you never know.

 

[iKramerica]

I ran a cable that has 2 Cat5E and 2 RG6 quad shield wrapped together (from cables2go I think) to all important locations, then ran them to a structured wiring enclosure. That's the best move, and enclosures aren't that expensive at smarthomeusa or other places.

The benefit of the dual/dual cabling is that with 2 Cat5e, you can hook up ethernet + phone + ir repeaters and other things as long as you break it out correctly into jacks. With dual RG6, you can hook up a receiver and send other signals, like HD antenna, or backward on channel 3, etc. without the need of diplexers.

 

[Claude Greiner]

If your installing a drop ceiling, go to Home Depot and get some Grey plastic conduit, and put a 90 degree elbow above the drop ceiling so you have an open conduit to each plate.

The plastic conduit is very cheap!

This way you can pulll anything you want down to the wall plate later!

 

[Van]

I would think again about putting up sheet rock in a ceiling basement, its a majour hassle to get to any type of conduit or utility that gets damaged or needs replacing and if its water related then you have to deal with replacing the sheet rock where as its easier to replace a panel or two of drop tile ceiling.