Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference

Tue Nov 28 23:32:56 UTC 2023

I am not personally aware of such a standard that is used in every state,
but it is worth checking with the state authority to see what standards are
applicable in the state.

That being said, I would ask if the home is being prewired for alarm
services or not. If so, you could find an avenue to ask about other things.
My sister and her husband just bought a new house outside of Dallas and it
is coming prewired for RG6, wired alarm and CAT-6 ethernet.

On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 4:45 PM Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com> wrote:

> My relative is buying a new house is a typical American surbuban tract
> housing development.  Yep, I'm the extended family I.T. consultant.
>
> The marketing brochure calls it "custom home" but he only gets to talk to
> the developer's "design consultants", i.e. sales people.  The developer
> has a sales center and pre-set upsell options, kitchen countertop
> choices, carpeting, etc. He never talks to the architect, general
> contractor, electricians or construction crew.
>
> He paid for a finished basement option, which means most of the basement
> will have sheetrock finished walls. So the first cable, fiber or
> telephone utility will be cutting holes in the new sheetrock. I was trying
> to avoid needing to cut brand-new sheetrock or fishing wire
> through walls.
>
> The design consultant's answer for everything was 5G ... 5G ... 5G. No
> more ugly boxes on the house, everything will be wireless. There is a
> special deal if he signed up for 5G wireless service before his house was
> finished.
>
> For something "no one ever asks about," the design consultant seemed to
> have a lot of prepared sales pitches.
>
>
> Acting like a dumb homebuyer over the Thanksgiving weekend I did notice
> the model home had a demarc box on the garage outside wall.  The garage
> in the model home is used as the builder's office, so it may not be how
> the built homes are setup.
>
>
> A new version of ANSI/TIA-570 (residential wiring standard) is due this
> year. In the old days, a minimum of one wired telephone outlet was
> required. I was just wondering if there was new 'standard' for demarcs in
> new residential construction.  But it sounds like there isn't. Draping
> cables around the sides of the house.
>
>
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