Who cares how long someone has been on this board, I've been on here for awhile and I design IT Data Centers for media companies for a living including low and high voltage, and I think you have to be very careful not to over-wire as well, and not because of the cost of the materials but the labor costs and de-marc space requirements.

Fiber to a house is only fiber to the pole, the rest of the way is coax. At least that's my understanding of FIOS.

You can most definitely over-wire a house, the demarc or closet or wherever the cabling is going to centrally terminate is going to have to accomodate an enormous amount of cabling considering the suggestions made earlier and would probably necessitate patch panels!

Rangerfan - I would sit down with a designer with the floor plans in front of you and figure out what you want/need today and build in some room for expansion.

In my house a "pull" consists of 2 cat5's and 2 rg6 coax's that all terminate in a patch panel in my garage. Audio cabling terminates in a corner of my living room where I have my av equipment (i have ceilng mount speaker holes in every room in the house and IR remote plates that i haven't installed yet). Each indiviudal run is pretty thin out on the floors, but the space requirements for wherever it all terminates to centrally can get pretty big.

Don't forget that for data connectivity you can use wireless with well placed repeaters/antennas on each floor instead of running cat5 through the house as well.

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