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I am currently in the process of renovating a house we recently purchased.

All of the walls are going to be plastered and an electrician is in next week to do a full rewire so its seems like a good idea to run network cables to the upstairs bedrooms at the same time.

One faceplate in each room will be enough and there are 3 bedrooms. The router will be located by the master socket in the front room. Can anyone recommend what kit I will need to purchase? I plan on buying everything then giving it to my electrician to chase into the walls whilst he is doing a full rewire.

Thanks in advance. :)
 
Thanks for the quick reply.

Where do people tend to have the patch panel? We have an airing cupboard with plenty of space in it in a fairly central location. Would this be suitable (ie heat etc)? Easy access from there to the other rooms under the floorboards.
I'd probably opt for a 24 port in case more are needed in the future. Not a massive difference in price anyway.

Haven't chose the faceplates yet. What sort of switch would I need? Just trying to get my head around why a patch panel and a switch is needed.

Sorry quite new to networking so its all new to me! :)
 
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Thanks that makes perfect sense. I couldn't understand the need for both a patch panel and a switch but that explains it.

Would it be prudent to use Cat6 instead?
 
Thanks chaps.

I will definitely follow the advice above and use a patch panel. What sort of case/rack will I need to mount the panel and switch?
They seem quite pricey from what I have seen.
 
I was just looking at the UBIQUITI AP. Would this work with the standard Sky Router? Do they extend the existing network rather than add a second?
 
Thanks, looks good too. Need to get to the house and do some measuring to see where would be best to put it.

The cable that runs from the router to the switch, does this need its own faceplate at each end? Or can you, say, put a 4 gang faceplate by the router, use three for devices and leave one for the connection to the switch?
If that makes any sense! :D
 
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I need to get the cable sorted as the electrician is coming Monday.

Shall I go for shielded or unshielded? Been looking at the excel stuff as it gets pretty good reviews.
 
Work is well underway on the rewire and cat 6 install. I popped round this evening and noticed that he hasn't labelled up any of the cables.

Is there an easy way of checking which cable goes where before I connect them all to the patch panel? Would like it to be in a certain order :)
 
Thanks for the help. :)

Are you able to point me in the direction of a suitable cable tester? I'll give the metre markings a go as well
 
I mean, if I wanted to test the cables before terminating them on to the patch panel. I'd like to have them in order on the panel :D
 
Looks like I was wrong and all of the cables have been labelled up :D

Might still get one of the toners as it looks like a handy piece of kit to have in the box.

Any recommendations on cable strippers? The Cyclops Stripper looks good.
 
8 months on and I finally got around to punching all the cables down. All up and running and working a treat :)

The Cyclops and side cutters are brilliant :) Thanks for all the help!

 
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