Designing Network for House

Danger Phoenix

Danger Phoenix

Danger Phoenix

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We are getting our house done up and am thinking of putting a network point in every room. The plan is to converge them all to a hub somewhere which when connects to the router.

What are everyone's thoughts?

Can you buy double plug socket faceplates with RJ45 connectors?
 
This is what I did when I built our house :)

Everything is wired back to 2x 48 way patch panels under the stairs, and everything sits in a rack out of the way. It's not to everyone's taste, but you could easily hide it all away in a cupboard if you don't want it on show.

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Each room has cat 6 sockets dotted around the place, which are just regular 2 or 4 way sockets with cat 6 jacks "punched" on to the end of the cable.

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bremen1874 said:
I haven't seen anyone mount network jacks that way up before.
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All the ones upstairs are upside down as I tacked the cat 6 to the breeze blocks and I would have had to bend the cable too much to get them the right way up. Basically, I cocked up :p
 
EVH said:
All the ones upstairs are upside down as I tacked the cat 6 to the breeze blocks and I would have had to bend the cable too much to get them the right way up. Basically, I cocked up :p
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Fair enough.

@Danger Phoenix

If you're wiring a house you can you can get less industrial looking faceplates. All of my mains sockets are MK Logic Plus, so I paid the extra and purchased their matching network faceplates.
 
BG do a clip in module system so do triax. But I would keep network away from sockets as they will interfere, also avoid where possible running cat cable alongside electrical cable. I put 3xcat6 and 1xcoax (tv) in most rooms. Living room has 8xcat6 though.

Remember once in you can use them for more than just network, I.e phone and video. Better to have more than to little.

Oh and get solid core for punching.
 
FerretBoy said:
BG do a clip in module system so do triax. But I would keep network away from sockets as they will interfere, also avoid where possible running cat cable alongside electrical cable. I put 3xcat6 and 1xcoax (tv) in most rooms. Living room has 8xcat6 though.

Remember once in you can use them for more than just network, I.e phone and video. Better to have more than to little.

Oh and get solid core for punching.
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Apologies if this is a silly question but how can they be used for phone and video?

Also, what do you mean by the "solid core for punching"?
 
Well you can send all kinds of signals other than network, for telephone you need rj11 to rj45 connectors, for video you can use hdmi to rj45. You can also get converters that allow you to send remote ir over it too, so you could share sky from one box etc.

You 'punch' cat5 or cat6 cable into patch panels and wall plates with a punch tool. The cable needs to have solid copper cores for them to be punched. I made the mistake of getting stranded core and it was impossible so I had to replace it.
 
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