Check out Bart’s SnapStream Setup in the Texas Hill Country
November 30th, 2006 at 10:23 am by Rakesh
Bart Decanne, who lives outside of Austin in the Texas Hill Country, has quite the SnapStream setup at his home. He has Beyond TV setup in his living room and Beyond TV Link running in two other rooms of the house. Some pictures below:
Bart’s Living Room
The master bedroom
Bart’s Home Office
Thanks for sharing your system with us Bart. And if anyone else out there would like to share your Beyond TV setup with us, just e-mail us at marketing@snapstream.com.
December 1st, 2006 at 12:11 pm
Hello Bart,
Very nice system indeed. How did you wire the TV’s in different rooms?
Vern
December 6th, 2006 at 4:42 pm
Vern,
I’m not sure how he did it but I rewired my telephone jacks to use as Ethernet jacks. Some homes have 4 wires for phone and new ones generally have 8 going to each jack. Ethernet requires 4, so if that’s all you have then it won’t work for you if you use your telephone wiring (I use a cell phone).
You’ll need to use a toner/tracer to figure out how your place is wired. Phone jacks are daisy-chained from one room to the next. I just bypassed the jacks and twisted the wires together on the in-between jacks and bought a new wall plate and 8-position jack for the two end points. You might not get 100 Mbit due to the quality of the wiring in your home but I have had no problem streaming HDTV using BTV Link…that’s 20 Mbit.
If none of that made sense then you’ll have to find a phone/network geek in your area to lend a hand.
December 6th, 2006 at 4:47 pm
I just read the link to Bart’s blog and he provides more detail — he is using power line networking to connect his two PC’s. The approach that I used was about $10 in parts but it requires knowledge and a few tools.
December 7th, 2006 at 3:33 pm
Specs would be nice.
December 7th, 2006 at 5:11 pm
BeyondTV Link will work pretty well on wireless, at least with standard TV. Or there’s PowerLine networking.
December 8th, 2006 at 3:50 pm
I ran a Cat5 cable from living to bedroom.
Living room to office is via Powerline network.
See more details on my blogsite accessible from the links in the text.
Bart
January 13th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
This look’s great, now please give us ALL the details! Thanks!