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Craigius

Craigius

Craigius

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Hi all

Im having all the flooring up in the house in the next few weeks due to some building work, as a result of this I'm going to run CAT6 to most rooms in the house, I'm going to have a patch panel and switch in the garage, there will be about 14 connections across the rooms again these are going to be terminated to face plates.

My question is is this cable going to be OK to use

http://www.netstoredirect.com/cat6-cable/66-excel-cat6-utp-cable.html

all the runs will come up out of the garage and up the stairs so there is potential for about 14 cables to be side by side going up on to the first landing then they will be split off to different rooms, non of the CAT cable will run past any electrical wiring.

The underlay and carpet will laid on top of the wires when the installation is completed.
 
Sorry I'm going to get 305 meters I think to be sure I have enough, going for the CAT6 for future proof as the flooring wont be coming up for a long time after this work is done.
 
Ok thanks guys for all the input, my last question is..

My router is by my front door into the master socket, now all the switch and stuff is going to be in the garage, so do I

Move the Wireless router to the garage (by extending the telephone cable)

Or leave the router where it is and run some CAT6 cables off the back of the Lan ports to the switch.

I would favour the second option as the wireless coverage for laptops and i-pads is better where the router is located.
 
bremen1874 said:
The default reaction on this forum seems to be to recommend relatively large numbers of ports in every room to cover every possible scenario.

In many cases the people providing the recommendations are the same people that only a few weeks earlier were asking really basic networking questions.

Recommending eight ports in every room without any direct knowledge of the building or its use is pointless.
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To be honest I was going to go for 4 in the lounge area and then 2 everywhere else in bedrooms and such, maybe 4 in my computer room.
 
Well all the flooring is up so i'll post back here when i have got some of the cables down, been looking at laying some speaker cables as well in the lounge for the surround sound system.
 
Well got all the cables down and the carpet fitters came today they complained regarding the cables making bump's in the carpets but i told them to get on with putting the carpets down and see what it looks like, I cant tell the cables are under there to be honest!
 
No I wasn't in a position to get them under the boards due to time constraints I have managed to run them round the out side edges of the rooms under the carpets and the underlay without affecting the carpet and the look of the carpet
 
bremen1874 said:
If the cable routes fall outside of normal tread areas you should be fine. If not they'll become very obvious over time.
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Thanks, Yeah I have managed to get them out of the way all by one area across a door on the upper level but at this time i'm not too worried about it, just need some face plates and back boxes now.
 
Managed to get the cab in and the Synology's inside all the ports are working just need to put the faceplates on in some of the rooms best thing I did really speeds are great as well

edit I know I need to tidy up around the cab house is still a bit upside down!

 
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