Voice and Data Cabling Recommendations

[stabbert]

Anyone have any recommendations on voice and data cabling installers for residential?  I am going to be finishing the basement of my home and prior to doing that I want the voice and data cabling rerun to all rooms in our house to avoid issues in the future.  Looking for a reasonable cost and reliable company that does this in the Brookfield/Pewaukee area.
Spencer

[ArgMeMatey]

Just one suggestion for you ... instead of doing your cabling now, just put in 3/4" or 1" ENT (smurf tube) to each location.  Run the ENT all the way, or to a "trunking" system of electrical conduit and large junction boxes to get back to your wiring backboard.  

This gives you the flexibility to put in only what you need for today, and to add or remove as needed as technology changes.

I have a whole house set up with 3/4" ENT and electrical raceway from 1-1/2 to 3 inch for just low voltage.  Most of that is either empty or has one Cat 4 or one RG-6.  That's right, Cat 4, because it works fine for 100 Mbps for short distances and the laptops all use wireless.  If I need Cat 5, 6 or fiber, I'll add it when I need it with a screwdriver, a fish tape and a pull string in about a half hour.  I also have doorbell and thermostat wiring in the same system, although some advise against mixing.  No problems that I have detected.  

Get smurf tube in 100' rolls or larger in blue from a big box, or you can order yellow for low-voltage at an electrical supply house.   Red is also available but usually used for fire systems.  Connectors, plastic boxes and so on are widely available.  

Just as a side note, after I did this at home I wanted to do it at the office as well, so I told the general contractor about what I wanted.   But he had the electrical contractor install 2-Cat 5 and 1-RG-6 to each outlet in the office.  So then we had a few thousand feet of cable in the walls, most of it doing nothing.  It's a lot cheaper to have ENT doing nothing than all that copper wasted.