Network wall plate female to female, 8 ports / wired network setup

[Caged]

Just pull Cat6, no need to mess around with Cat6A in a house. Especially if this is the first time you're going to be working with the cable.

 

[VersionMonkey]

Do I need to use copper tape to ground the shielded cable though?

If so, should copper tape only be used on one end of the ethernet cable?

This guy uses it with Cat6a shielded cable the video below:

I suppose we can try it without, to see if it works...

Not necessarily. The main concern is to ensure you get a good connection between the casing of the module and the drain wire.

You can do it like this as an alternative:

Do both ends.

 

[g67575]

Not necessarily. The main concern is to ensure you get a good connection between the casing of the module and the drain wire.

You can do it like this as an alternative:

Do both ends.

Excellent video, thankyou.

It's the same type of keystone module, by the looks of it.

We should be getting all the equipment tomorrow.

 

[g67575]

Just pull Cat6, no need to mess around with Cat6A in a house. Especially if this is the first time you're going to be working with the cable.

Cat 6 would've been my choice lol, it's fine for shorter ranges /home use. We'll make do though

 

[WJA96]

Do I need to use copper tape to ground the shielded cable though?

If so, should copper tape only be used on one end of the ethernet cable?

This guy uses it with Cat6a shielded cable the video below:

I suppose we can try it without, to see if it works...

Do you want to certify the cabling? If so, then you need a solid earth and that’s what the copper tape gives you. If not then it will work just fine without the copper tape. But you really have gone seriously OTT for a home install at this point.

You’ve actually left the path of ‘the future’ (which is optical fibre) and gone off down a side-track of ‘how do we squeeze the most out of copper over long distances’.

 

[g67575]

We've done the 1st connection (up to my room) and it's working.

We did struggle for a while though. We tested the connection with a cable tester and it showed all 8 ethernet wires working, but connecting it to a PC just caused cable disconnection errors.

So, we started to wonder if the shielding and drain wire were correct. Luckily, there's a video that shows you how to prepare S/FTP cables here:

The cable type we bought is confusingly called SF/FTP, but in this case is the same thing.

We started again and this time, folded back the shielded foil (for each copper pair), with the drain wire underneath it (the foil braiding acts a both cable shielding and the drain wire). Fortunately, the cable is working now.

Hopefully, the rest of the wiring up will be straightforward. The type of Cat6A cable we are using is more flexible than expected.

I'm testing the cable for any issues now. I've run a test here that checks for packet retransmissions when when downloading /uploading over the internet. link here:
https://speed.measurementlab.net/#/

I get 0% retransmissions when I set my network adapter to 100 Mbps full duplex, but small amounts of packet loss when setting to 1.0gbps full duplex. I'm wondering if this is because the modem/router I am using is only 100mbps (but I have a switch connected to it with 1gbps ports).

The latency is showing as <1ms, when pinging my router, as expected. This doesn't seem to be affected by downloading files at the same time.

Either way, 100mbps is more than enough for my current internet connection, which has a downstream of ~50mbps.

EDIT - Tried Windows file sharing between a laptop connected to a 1gbps switch and my PC and got 987mbps, so it appears to be working very well