Is this installation considered acceptable today? (1-ring including oven and everything else)

[Dave OCD]

Didn’t want any tea or coffee.

Iain, they can't have been real electricians !!!!

 

[Octopus]

Good to know, so that signal is not going to be even close to WiFi - and longer range which makes sense for safety devices.

I found the WiFi to be dire even before the CCTV got added in, but it definitely adds strain to it!

The solution I came to was to put an AP in the lounge and an AP in the master bedroom, pretty much opposite ends of the house, and it works pretty well.

If I continue to have issue, may split the network for the CCTV and the rest, but I'm in the process of running 12x CAT6 to each room so the WiFi really is non critical for anything intensive by the time I'm done.

12 CAT5 points in every rooom - bit of an over kill ...

 

[Octopus]

Edit: total visit time was around 40 minutes.

Hum ......... still not long enough IMHO to really do a check on an installation / EICR

 

[Dave OCD]

Up to him how many he needs or wants, not really my thing network points.

 

[littlespark]

40 minutes is a bit quick... even though theres 2 of them, and the number of circuits in the CU is quite small.... they must be really experienced in doing EICR's that they can do them in such a quick time.

So its proved there is, and has always been only 1 ring final circuit here for all the sockets in the house.

So what is it with all the IT equipment? Either large scale pirate bluray copying going on or editing of some rather "specialist" films?

 

[DPG]

Bitcoin mining?

 

[Toneyz]

1 ring was the norm in the 70's all the houses on the estate where I live have one ring or did have in our case.

 

[Iain Kay]

In my view that is commercial scale use of a domestic supply "technicalities" aside, to put it another way it is not normal domestic use of a system designed for exclusively domestic use. If I were a landlord and the system was overloaded by your use I would be looking to you for reparations. The onus would be on you to rebutt the claim. But as has been stated it is highly unlikely you would overload the system anyway. Bear in mind there have been tenants before you and evidently there has not been a problem, if there is in your particular case it may be that you are using the system in a non normal way.

12 CAT5 points in every rooom - bit of an over kill ...

Cat6 man. Not a huge difference but it has that plastic down the middle which helps to separate the pairs achieving up to 10Gbps instead of up to 1Gbps on Cat5E, or longer runs at 1Gbps.

It also helps with interference when running a lot in close proximity, which I definitely am.



The reasoning behind so many ports per room (or at least master bedroom and lounge) is that I want every single device back to the central comms cupboard where I have two 24-port managed switches which I can set up VLANs (virtual networks) on and segregate things.

For example, all my VoIP phones are on one network but they can't speak to the PCs. The entertainment stuff (Xbox, Apple TV, etc) can speak to the PCs to stream, but PCs can't directly access them because they don't have to. Guests on WiFi can't communicate with the wired network. Etc.

I've also got specific colour patch leads for each thing, black for PCs, red for media, blue for PoE, etc.

Over the top in terms of set up and organisation but I like it.

 

[Iain Kay]

Bitcoin mining?

In the past I have. It's not profitable any more though unless you hope it's going to sky rocket in value and just hold it!

 

[Iain Kay]

40 minutes is a bit quick... even though theres 2 of them, and the number of circuits in the CU is quite small.... they must be really experienced in doing EICR's that they can do them in such a quick time.

So its proved there is, and has always been only 1 ring final circuit here for all the sockets in the house.

So what is it with all the IT equipment? Either large scale pirate bluray copying going on or editing of some rather "specialist" films?

Oh no, as far as I can ascertain they have not actually completed another EICR. I asked my LA if they're going to need to have this re-done.

I work in IT mostly doing network design, implementation and deployment; and software development, so I've got various operating systems and machine specifications here for testing.

I'm also quite interested in performance testing and for that you need to simulate high processor or graphics usage for long periods and try to tune around it.

I am also quite partial to security testing so firing up a lot of graphics cards to try and crack a password hash, which when running for hours or days on end can push 300-400W per graphics card. 1,500W PSUs getting pushed to 100% is not uncommon, however, that can actually toast the 3-pin sockets so I prefer to use up to 1,000W per PSU.

 

[Iain Kay]

I'd like to thank everybody here for all of your responses!

I really, really, do appreciate all of the time and effort you've taken out of your day to provide excellent information and advice.

Just FYI, I've discussed my set up with the electricians out today and I think the conclusion will be running a radial or two for my set up and they're fine with me providing the materials and running the circuit.

They may not let me terminate into the CU myself even with them present, will try my luck, but certainly I'll get some experience out of the design and installation of a proper circuit, albeit achieved with trunking.

Hopefully any further queries I have will be of a more technical nature with me demonstrating some knowledge and not just being a noob.

Thanks again.

 

[littlespark]

So no dodgy videos, then?

 

[Iain Kay]

So no dodgy videos, then?

Nowt you can't find on Google

Did once look at setting up a cam girl business with a friend of mine, but neither of our mrs' were having it!

 

[Toneyz]

Nowt you can't find on Google

Did once look at setting up a cam girl business with a friend of mine, but neither of our mrs' were having it!

The truth is coming out now dodgy dvd's

 

[Iain Kay]

The truth is coming out now dodgy dvd's

I don't even own a DVD burner or player nowadays to be honest.

Can just stream now and the selection is huge

 

[123]

Nowt you can't find on Google

Did once look at setting up a cam girl business with a friend of mine, but neither of our mrs' were having it!

Did you ask them to be performers?

 

[Iain Kay]

Did you ask them to be performers?

No lol. Maybe that was the issue...

 

[Gary K]

Nowt you can't find on Google

Did once look at setting up a cam girl business with a friend of mine, but neither of our mrs' were having it!

Perhaps why there is only mention of a daughter now!

 

[Iain Kay]

Nowt you can't find on Google

Did once look at setting up a cam girl business with a friend of mine, but neither of our mrs' were having it!

Perhaps why there is only mention of a daughter now!

Haha Gary, a lot of back story there. Would require many a pint.