Here you find a List of frequently asked Questions about Multimedia Cabling in Homes and SOHO
 

Electricity supply is available everywhere in the house, but not suitable as fast data network or for transmission of TV signals. With the high carrier frequency and amplitude, needed for fast data communication, the unscreened power cables have a high emission of radiation. This would offend EMC rules, and also privacy aspects would be stressed. Also interference of immision into the network takes place as well as distortion of the energy consumers.
Result: Small data rates can be realized quite simply, e.g. data for home automation etc., but if multimedia applications have to be distributed, with a data rate of several MBit/s or even Fast-Ethernet, a solid multimedia wiring is required.

(2) Outside the house: power lines as acces technology for data, e.g. internet acces.

Here the electricity supply is used as data source instead of the phone line. The main advantage is permanent availability of this connection, however all users of the same neighbourhood have to share the data rate, since they access the same line - the promised high bandwidths can only be reached theoretically. Besides for using the internet one still needs the phone line as backward channel.
Result: May be this technology is an interesting alternative to conventional internet acces via modem and telephone line, if the data rate requirements are not very high. For distribution of this service within the house see statement above: solid Multimedia wiring is required as house distribution of all services.

Meanwhile most german power line communication projects have been cancelled.

"attach" yes, "simply" no.
1. TV outlet:
Mounting an additional outlet box is no clamping problem. But from the electrical view there is a functional limitation as you cannot use both outlets for Sat-TV or cable modem simultaneously. Find the solution below.
2. Phone/Data outlet:
Mounting two outlets on one branch is more difficult here, because you have to mount two cores on each clamp of the outlet. From the electrical view there is no limitation on the phone part, but the data part has to be star structured, so again you cannot use both boxes simultaneously when serving as data network.
3. Solution: Simply lay two separate cables, one for each outlet box unit. As the cable's price is approx. 1 Euro, this should be no cost problem. The additional work for laying the second cable is less than the additonal clamping job mentioned above. But the biggest advantage is that you can use both outlets simultaneously, so you are prepared for the future.

Technically this would be possible and even save space. However, you would be forced to use the internal hub or antenna switch, and therefore you would lose flexibility. Whereas Basynet in its current version (without internal active components) offers the option, to use any external components as needed, independent of the manufacturer and flexible, e.g. hub, switch or router on the data side and active or passive TV distributor or even satellite distributor on the TV side. So you are fully compatible and can upgrade components at any time.

The Basynet outlet box normally offers one telephone socket and one data socket. Can I connect 2 telephones or 2 PCs instead? If yes, how?

Yes. You only need special patch cables:
Distributor and outlet boxes transmit the signals as follows: The telephone sockets use contacts 4+5 and 3+6 (analog and ISDN), whereas the data sockets use contacts 1+2 and 3+6 (Ethernet). To change one of the services, only pairs 1-2 and 4-5 have to be crossed. The performance of telephone side and data side are identical anyway, that is 100 MBit/s (Fast-Ethernet).
How to connect the plugs of this special patch cable: 1 to 4 ; 2 to 5 ; 3 to 3 ; 4 to 1 ; 5 to 2 ; 6 to 6. Contacts 7 and 8 are not needed. Make two of these cables and plug each in the desired jack of the distributor and the corresponding jack of the outlet box of the service to be changed (the direction of the cable is not significant).
Most important however: Label these special crossed patch cables!

Regarding the tel/data outlet's compatibility to decoration covers, the company Rutenbeck is mentioned. What does this mean? Can I also use the standard double-data outlet boxes of Rutenbeck?

Indeed, the Basynet outlet box "UAE Tel/Data (4/4)" is manufactured by Rutenbeck. But this outlet box has a special allocation of the contacts in the RJ45 sockets for the simultaneous use of telephone and data on a 4-pair data cable. And it also has the appropriate colour-coding to make the installation quick and safe, without bothering about the conductor locations.
The only common things to the standard box "(8/8)" are it's price and mechanical dimensions, this guarantees that all decoration frames and covers fit "according to Rutenbeck UAE outlet box". For standard frames a plain white standard cover (50x50mm) goes with each Basynet Tel/Data box.

Yes. Of course you have to pay attention to quality. If a satellite dish installation is planned, a TV/Radio/Sat box is required anyway (so is the "ESD30").

The Basynet multimedia outlet boxes are a combination of two boxes mounted side by side. Isn't there a more compact and easier solution?

There is a more compact solution but it is not easier. We also offer a solution with only one box, however we recommend it only in special cases. Here are the advantages an disadvantages of both solutions:

1-box-solution: It consists of the normal antenna outlet box, e.g. ESD30, on which the special plug-on cover EST20 is mounted, containing the telephone and data socket. However, this cover is not shielded, so the data transmission rate of 100 MBit/s (Fast-Ethernet) is not guaranteed. Besides, as the cover itself covers the outlet box, no other decoration frames or covers can be mounted. Only advantage is the little space required.

2-box-solution: This is the standard Basynet solution where one box for TV-radio-sattelite and one telephone-/data box are mounted side by side. Beside the doubled space required this constellation has many advantages compared to the 1-box-solution: The boxes are standardized and familiar, therefore they have a low price are easy to install. Thanks to the metallic screen the telephone-/data box is good for 100MBit/s (Fast-Ethernet) + reserves. Also the dimensions of the boxes are standardized, so they will fit to design frames and covers of other manufacturers.