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Went and visited the air con dealer near me today

Wife is firmly against evaporative, which is a shame as I really like it and it's cheap

13k for ducted AC, was worth the ask but a bit to high for me at the moment

So splits it is... One big 8kw and a 3.5kw for now

Mitsubishi electrics with 5year warranty for $5800

Bit higher price as I'm having the outdoor units opposite side of the house, so longer pipe runs

I spent a lot extra in the build on insulation so I reckon a couple splits will be able to keep the house comfy pretty easily

Also it actually costs a lot more to have a single out door unit and multi indoor units

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Good stuff and good price. Mitsubishi are good

What the wifes says goes most of the time. Wife will not live without A/C

Hope you get it install soon mate.

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Since I finally got ADSL connected at the new house two days ago I decided I better run a cable properly instead of leaving it like this to get shut in the garage door and chewed up


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Made use of the extra garage wall plate that the builder had to fit for when NBN eventually arrives in 50 years.  Also got the shortest length of phone cable I could to the modem to maximise sync speed :)


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Had opted for conduit on the solid internal walls with blank plates which made life easy!  No shortage of cable either (pings haven't changed at all thankfully).  Looped it around a roof beam to keep it overhead on the way over to the conduit pipe.


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The PC is against the outer wall though and those don't have blanks - I'd rather let a pro drill and fit a network plate as needed.  

Instead, I ran a cable straight from PC to modem though a blank plate (hole saw mod) on the next wall.  It will do nicely though until we get a sparkie in one day to fit the fancy lights etc

 

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At least this way I am not surfing over wifi and the cable isn't a trip hazard and being crushed by the door!

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On 1/8/2017 at 1:31 PM, -Stever- said:

I am not surfing over wifi and the cable isn't a trip hazard

sure ya haven't tripped already? :stirthepot:

 

what sort of adsl speed are you getting? sync rate that is. hopefully it's awesome.

 

Also I am not sure if you are aware but since it looks like you used a long patch lead with pre terminated ends I would refrain from having that cable terminated into a proper RJ45 outlet as it is likely stranded copper instead of solid copper. basically just poke it through one of the gang holes on a standard plate when you eventually get a few more proper cables put in.

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Whats the specs on the house/land?

3x2 + study/extra living area + storage room
385sqm block
Double lock up garage
Wooden floorboards through entry, living/dining/kitchen area and hallway
Wooden decked alfresco
Large paved patio
Massive high ceilings
Ducted reverse cycle aircon to whole house + separate split system in master
Alarm
View to park with lake across the street

Needs painting and a new kitchen, new bathrooms etc eventually but it's plenty live-able for now. The glass mosaic is a bit...interesting, as are the terracotta walls...but that can all be fixed.

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PS I spent money on car, unexpected plane tickets, shipping boxes and a cremation instead of installing flooring in house.  Tiling we want is like 17 to 20 grand so it's going to be a few years of concrete floors :/

 

Could run nines for that these days hahaha

 

 

 

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Oh and yeah the 20m cable is temporary but will likely live there for a long while...sync was 7616kbps if I recall correctly.  Upload only 384kbps, seems I've maxed out the ADSL 1 port and I'm 4.5km by road from the exchange.  Advantage of semi rural - thicker copper wire used for phone lines = less attenuation as you know, so in human terms it effectively acts like a shorter cable would in the suburbs speed wise.  Best "real world" result from speedtest.net was 6.9Mbps A.K.A. roughly 750KB/second so about 0.75MB (Megabytes) a second.  Don't you just love computer metrics...

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