Cable advice

[EnzoSmithers]

Afternoon all,

I have recently moved into a new build house. While the house was being built, I asked the builders to put in a duct from the loft room (my office) to the Living room. When we moved in, they have put blanking plates over standard boxes in the walls, and my tubing I provided (it is something my dad reccomended, has a pulley in it for pulling through cables etc).

No I have bought a gigabit router, i am coming to the point of wiring the whole thing up.

this is where I am confused about what to buy.

I need 2x faceplates for the 2 boxes. From these I will run standard cat 6 patch leads to my router and to the TV/Ps3?Raspberry Pi media streamer downstairs.

These face plates, do they require bare cable wired into them, or do they have a female RJ45 port that you just plug a full patch lead into?

If it is un-ended cable which I think it will be, do I need UTP or FTP cat6 cable?

Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated

Cheers,

Rob

 

[EnzoSmithers]

Thanks for the reply, would these punch down faceplates 'punch down' the bare wire into the relevant spots or do i need a tool or anything to wire them as well?

If the router is gigabit, as are all devices connected to it, would the CAT6 not allow faster transfer rates?

 

[EnzoSmithers]

well you learn something every day, I thought you had to use Cat6 for gigabit!

I suspect the cable length will be approximately 15-25 metres, I do not know exactly the route it has went to get from my office to the living room.

I will only being doing this punch down twice where each end connects to the face plate, i will use prebought patch leads for the gaps inbetween.

thanks for all the help guys