Cat5 solid copper cable

AHarvey

AHarvey

AHarvey

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Hi all,

Looking at wiring our house up for networking over the next year or two.

Now, I am going to start with my daughters room as it's stripped anyway. I figured the best way to do it would be to run chisel out a couple of channels and run the wire up them into the attic space. From here I can either patch them and run them all down to a gigabit switch or put a patch in the attic and run that cable down.

I won't be connecting it to anything yet but I'll run them up and wire them all up afterwards when all the rooms are done.

For cable i've found the following:

Cat5e 305m (1000ft) solid copper ethernet cable 24AWG 4 pair copper for £51.56 inc vat.

Would this be acceptable?
 
As long as it's solid copper it should be okay. Personally I'd use branded cable from Excel or CCS.

If you're plastering the cable in I'd install oval conduit and run the cable inside that. It's dirt cheap and you've got some chance of replacing a cable if you ever need to. This could be more important if you aren't terminating and testing the cables immediately.

As always run additional cables if you can to add some flexibility in the future. Also leave plenty of spare length.
 
http://www.netstoredirect.com/cat5e-cable/17-excel-cat5e-utp-cable-pvc-outer-sheath.html

Tried about 10+ brands in work, CCS or Excel are the only ones I would use.

Either install spares or install them in a way that makes them very easy to replace (not always possible depending on the situation)

Use these modules/patch panels.

http://www.netstoredirect.com/cat5e-modules/27-excel-cat5e-utp-rj45-loaded-faceplates.html
http://www.netstoredirect.com/cat5e-patch-panels/9159-24-port-cat5e-utp-ccs-elite-patch-panel.html


A little more expensive than ebay specials, but ebay specials are pants :p
 
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nice one I'll have a look at those links now :)

Edit: So, I am guessing the best way would be to run cables to the attic space and connect to the patch, then run cables down from the patch to the ground floor and connect to the router?
 
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The usual approach is to route all of the cables back to a central point where you terminate them at a patch panel (this could be the attic, it depends on the building). Your network switch would be located in the same place and plugged into the patch panel.

If the router needs to be somewhere else then you run one of your network cables to that location and plug the router into it.
 
If your not planning on ripping the walls off again for many years it might be worth spending a little more and running cat6.

Excel is the only cable we use on drums for our cabling jobs.
 
Assuming solid refers to solid core, I would never recommend solid core wire over stranded of the same total cross section. It's just more likely to break and usually more expensive.
 
I went with Cat6 for potential 10G compatibility but it was nearly twice the price. Rather than run a Cat5/6 cable from your patch panel and switch to the router located elsewhere, you could instead put the router with the switch and run a Cat5/6 cable to your BT master socket instead.
 
joeyjojo said:
Assuming solid refers to solid core, I would never recommend solid core wire over stranded of the same total cross section. It's just more likely to break and usually more expensive.
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Stranded cable for patch cords, solid core everywhere else.

The IDC terminals on the faceplates won't work with stranded cable.
 
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