Hello everyone, This is only loosely related to Linux, but it is certainly related to home networking in Ontario. I'm looking for some of the "offical" information about how to wire data wiring in houses legally. I know, every guide says use plenum-rated wire, and I know there are tricks to prevent interference etc. But what I really want is just the authoritative information about what the requirements are in Ontario. Is it really that simple? I'd hate to wire it up only to have somebody need to rip it out in the future as a fire hazard. I was thinking of cat3 phonewire, 2 sets of cat6 data (material costs are less than the work to install it), and some cable tv coax and speaker wire. I was also thinking of some interesting data jack locations for outside network-enabled cameras, wireless access points and wiring closets. Rumour has it that people are also wiring in fibre these days, even if it is unused. Unused cat6 pairs could also be used for home automation, or who knows what else. Wireless is not going to be a perfect replacement for this stuff for a long time, today it is slow and suffers from privacy issues. Tomorrow it will be faster, but whether or not it will cater to impractical geeks remains to be seen. Besides, it's fun to hack around with this stuff. Another reason I want to do this however is because it is an old house... I'm going to be doing some electrical & plumbing upgrades, and afterwards, I'm going to be using some blow-in insulation for energy efficiency and soundproofing... which will make future wire installations an order of magnitude more difficult. The thought also crossed my mind to use armoured cable and carefully placed pull-locations, so that some nut in the future can wire up their post apocolyptic EMP resistant pneumatic computer networks, or whatever other oddities appear. Most of the work will be done next year. Currently, I'm researching so that I can plan things out reasonably well. I'll probably be doing a couple small runs in the next month or two, if they fit a master-plan, all the better. -Mike -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml