My place at school is a little obscene for a college student (okay, very), and when it was being built we specified where all the wires went. Just make sure they GO THERE. The place was being built remotely (my dad and I in DC and the "house" in Williamsburg). My dad had walked around with the wiring guy when the frame was up because we were very concerned with the wiring (we're both pretty geeky). Now this is a duplex with plans for 3 people living in it, each with their own bedroom, one downstairs and 2 up. We wanted one phone jack and one network jack in each room. We also specified the locations for the rear speakers in the future home theater.

We then end up with no phone jacks in the upstairs rooms (none upstairs at all), no phone jack in the room with the HT (sucks for Tivo), and big holes were bashed in the walls for the future speakers on the completely wrong side of the room. Add to that the fact that the guy wired every one of the 6 or 7 ethernet jacks incorrectly, and he didn't do a very good job.

That's why I advise making sure it's done right, or you have a pretty competant guy doing the install.


Oh, and I have one of those server closet dealies. It's called a wash closet in my bathroom

We've got a hub, router, backup battery, cable modem, and P120 web server and about 50 wires in there. You can feel the heat when you open the door, and that's very little stuff comparitavely