recommend me a cat5e cable

original.wood

original.wood

original.wood

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Hi, so after browsing here a while it had answered my question whether I should buy Powerline Adapters or not.

Firstly, we bought our first house late last year, and due to some unforseen circumstances we haven't yet moved in. We've had all the renovations completed for a few months, but didn't think about cabling the house before the laminate flooring went down.

The previous owner has had the main phone socket installed in the master bedroom upstairs, so the sky fibre hub has to be plugged in there. This has thrown me off slightly, as I intended of having the hub downstairs for ease when it comes to running the TV equipment.

So, the house is a simple 2 bed terraced, the hub is directly above the living room, so I'm estimating a 10m drop from the hub the the TV stuff (amazon fire box) the only other things I'm considering, is running a cable up in to the loft, for CCTV recorder and having that networked for mobile viewing as well as an IP camera the wife got for Christmas for viewing the dog in the house, we're thinking of placing this in the kitchen somewhere.

1. Can I pick up any decent Cat5e from Amazon? Only ask as I have a voucher.
2. Should it be round or is flat ok?
3. I see a lot of people talking about having 2 runs to each location, is this necessary?

Thanks and sorry for the wall of text.
 
original.wood said:
Hi, so after browsing here a while it had answered my question whether I should buy Powerline Adapters or not.

Firstly, we bought our first house late last year, and due to some unforseen circumstances we haven't yet moved in. We've had all the renovations completed for a few months, but didn't think about cabling the house before the laminate flooring went down.

The previous owner has had the main phone socket installed in the master bedroom upstairs, so the sky fibre hub has to be plugged in there. This has thrown me off slightly, as I intended of having the hub downstairs for ease when it comes to running the TV equipment.

So, the house is a simple 2 bed terraced, the hub is directly above the living room, so I'm estimating a 10m drop from the hub the the TV stuff (amazon fire box) the only other things I'm considering, is running a cable up in to the loft, for CCTV recorder and having that networked for mobile viewing as well as an IP camera the wife got for Christmas for viewing the dog in the house, we're thinking of placing this in the kitchen somewhere.

1. Can I pick up any decent Cat5e from Amazon? Only ask as I have a voucher.

Assuming you're just after a cable with a pre-fitted plug on both ends then yes. If you're wanting network sockets in each location you'd use unterminated solid core cable.

2. Should it be round or is flat ok?

Flat cables can be a bit of a lottery so you'd need to look at the feedback. Whatever cable you get test it before you route it around the house.

3. I see a lot of people talking about having 2 runs to each location, is this necessary?

No. It just usually makes sense. Solid core cable is cheap and it's almost as easy to pull two cables as one. If you're just running a pre-made cable as you appear to be planning it isn't really applicable.

Thanks and sorry for the wall of text.
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They're going to be classed as a competitor as well.

You'd have to try very hard to buy a network cable that doesn't work. Just try to ensure that it's made of copper rather than copper clad aluminium (CCA).

Excel are a quality brand so what you linked to earlier would be fine.
 
As said above, defo get Copper Core Cable

i bought this stuff from auction, (item number 331127476149), great price for 100m

granted i needed it for an external cable run but did the job fine.
 
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