Don't bother running RJ11, just run RJ45 and then patch telephone via RJ45 using adapters at the phone end, you can never have enough RJ45, it can handle most stuff, also think about if you want to have wireless access points around the house, that'll use another socket.

Also worth running speaker points in the living room and maybe bedroom, maybe all rooms if you want to have multi room audio (I've always wanted ceiling speakers in the bathroom

Might however be worth considering running some cables under the floor in the living room for speakers, with the bigger shift towards home entertainment, even if you don't use it, might be a plus point when you come to sell? and it's easy and not expensive to do when you have the place apart anyway?

Also I expect phone isn't so much of an issue with the digital cordless phones out now, does anybody use wired phones now?

In my parents house, we kitted that out with a full network and routed a lot of things over cat5 including A/V, just remember you can never have enough RJ45 sockets, my room had 4, we even had some in the utility room in case we got network attached washing machines/fridges etc (OK maybe a little overkill!) Also maybe worth putting a socket and power in the attic in case you want to put a server or wireless access point up there out of the way?

Just some things to consider?

EDIT: I think you can run HDMI over CAT as well?

And on a slightly different note, one thing I have always wanted to do is have a usb key holder, so the USB stick on your key ring automatically syncs with the server

Also if you are planning on wall mounting any TVs then will always be better to route the cabling behind the wall as well.. just some thoughts

Decide where you want everything to go back to.. I was lucky, I knocked out all the chimney breasts
& ripped down a few ceilings, so running cables was easy enough. Everything goes back to under the
stairs. Altogether I ran about a mile of cable (4x 305m boxes, a few 100m coils of coax cable)

4x cat ports to each room, 2x coax to every room.
coax incase you want sky+ in every room - or as terrestrial backup to satellite
4x ports - 1 data, 1 voice, 1x media streaming, 1x spare.

Use different colour CAT cable if you can. I use purple for data, orange for voice
& the other 2x are grey.

Also run speaker if you get the chance as suggested.

Oh & buy a wall chaser from ebay.

Quote from: Eggtastico on February 04, 2011, 09:54:13 AM

Decide where you want everything to go back to.. I was lucky, I knocked out all the chimney breasts
& ripped down a few ceilings, so running cables was easy enough. Everything goes back to under the
stairs. Altogether I ran about a mile of cable (4x 305m boxes, a few 100m coils of coax cable)

4x cat ports to each room, 2x coax to every room.
coax incase you want sky+ in every room - or as terrestrial backup to satellite
4x ports - 1 data, 1 voice, 1x media streaming, 1x spare.

Use different colour CAT cable if you can. I use purple for data, orange for voice
& the other 2x are grey.




Oh & buy a wall chaser from ebay.

So effectively you've got 3 seperate networks there, terminating through three patch panels/switches right?

Cheers for the heads up on a wall chaser!

Doesn't need to be separate patch panels as such I'd sooner group each of the rooms together, cables don't even need to be different colours, as you are only going to notice during the install, but when you are patching good to use different colour patch leads!

Also make sure you label both ends of each cable during install, saves the headache when you come to connect the wall plates and the patch panels! otherwise you will spend half your time working out which lead goes where, I managed an install in a big manor house and that was well over 100 cables run to a patch panel.

Also if like egg says you have 4 sockets, you just need to patch them to what you need them for, some rooms you might just want 4 network connections, others you might want one network and 3 AV etc etc (Make sure you put a load behind the TV/AV unit they are handy! and obviously if you have a study account for more in there!)