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Please tell me you used cat5e solid core and not some random cat5
Rewiring House and installing IT equipment tips..
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I wouldn't stick anything in our attic either. not necessarily for the fire risk, but it gets SO HOT and humid up there in the summer. and a bit damp in the winter.
If you can control the environment up there then would be better.
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Have a search for my house build thread.
I put an entire house worth of networking equipment under the stairs, including 1x 16 port telephony panel, 2x 48 port cat 6, coax distribution amp, surround sound and stereo ceiling speaker feeds.
This is about 18 months old, but you get the gist
I put an entire house worth of networking equipment under the stairs, including 1x 16 port telephony panel, 2x 48 port cat 6, coax distribution amp, surround sound and stereo ceiling speaker feeds.
This is about 18 months old, but you get the gist
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Have a search for my house build thread.
I put an entire house worth of networking equipment under the stairs, including 1x 16 port telephony panel, 2x 48 port cat 6, coax distribution amp, surround sound and stereo ceiling speaker feeds.
This is about 18 months old, but you get the gist
I take you have enough length on your structure cabling on the back end of the cabinet in case you need to access the side or back panels?
Mind you being home based there shouldn't be a massive amount of modification needed for you to be taking the panels off a lot lol, got a link to your thread?
Guys having read through this thread, my brother currently is having his house rebuilt/renovated. He has CAT6 run to all rooms and all come into his living room where he will have a switch. Is it necessary to have a patch panel or can it all be plugged into a managed switch? Why is a patch panel necessary?
A patch panel gives you flexibility, neatness, and resilience. The cables can all be terminated at a panel of sockets that is set into the wall, and then you can run short patch cables to the vertically-mounted switch. Otherwise you have a whole bunch of cables coming out of the wall, which looks a mess and if one of the ends breaks, you'll need to remake it whereas if the cable ends at a patch panel, it's fixed and if a patch cable breaks you just replace the patch cable.
so just an update as I am now looking for a 24 port switch or something similar..
I got the area under the stairs sanded and cemented and just about managed to get a lick of paint there
It is very messy under the stairs but the following has been completed and or bought:
- 6u Data rack cabinet
- 24 port patch panel
- BT master socket under the stairs
- 3 X Electrical sockts
- Broadband installed BT
- cables tidied up
- CCTV system
Violla:
I wanted to mount the rack to the wall but
I was not sure how to do this as I could only really see two holes on the top of the cabinet.
Also there is a very irritating metal old pipe there so I had to slightly elevate the rack with a few bricks... I intend to saw away the metal pipe and then put nice bits of timber underneath the cabinet when I get a chance.
I am now looking for a networking switch I want something very quiet I hate noise
prob 20-24 ports.
Got any suggestions?
I got the area under the stairs sanded and cemented and just about managed to get a lick of paint there
It is very messy under the stairs but the following has been completed and or bought:
- 6u Data rack cabinet
- 24 port patch panel
- BT master socket under the stairs
- 3 X Electrical sockts
- Broadband installed BT
- cables tidied up
- CCTV system
Violla:
I wanted to mount the rack to the wall but
I was not sure how to do this as I could only really see two holes on the top of the cabinet.
Also there is a very irritating metal old pipe there so I had to slightly elevate the rack with a few bricks... I intend to saw away the metal pipe and then put nice bits of timber underneath the cabinet when I get a chance.
I am now looking for a networking switch I want something very quiet I hate noise
prob 20-24 ports.
Got any suggestions?
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Dude! that's some serious about of ports for one house! On par with an industrial building! lol
You running Admiral Insurance from the bedroom? hehe
Why not just put it on a shelf?
Soldato
Another happy HP ProCurve owner. I picked up my 24port HP Procurve switch for my rack off 'the bay' for £33. It's non-POE and is unmanaged but there can be some good deals on there. Just make sure it's rack mountable ad includes the fittings.
My one is perfect and was sold off by a business upgrading there infrastructure.
so just an update as I am now looking for a 24 port switch or something similar..
I got the area under the stairs sanded and cemented and just about managed to get a lick of paint there
It is very messy under the stairs but the following has been completed and or bought:
- 6u Data rack cabinet
- 24 port patch panel
- BT master socket under the stairs
- 3 X Electrical sockts
- Broadband installed BT
- cables tidied up
- CCTV system
Violla:
I wanted to mount the rack to the wall but
I was not sure how to do this as I could only really see two holes on the top of the cabinet.
Also there is a very irritating metal old pipe there so I had to slightly elevate the rack with a few bricks... I intend to saw away the metal pipe and then put nice bits of timber underneath the cabinet when I get a chance.
I am now looking for a networking switch I want something very quiet I hate noise
prob 20-24 ports.
Got any suggestions?
That metal pipe to the right of the pic is an old Gas pipe i would avoid cutting that tbh.
I agree.
I am leaving that bad boy right there as I don't know what the consequences would be by breaking it!!
there is another pipe which had already been cut and is position underneath one of those bricks but it is not in line with the floor therefore the Rack thing was unbalanced.
wall mounted would be ideal but I guess not totally required.
When I got my house rewired I took the chance to run at least 4 Ethernet ports to every room. I also wired in three IP CCTV cameras. I placed my switch and panel in a little space under the stairs.
After living here 3.5 years we're now thinking about moving and it's quite sickening to think I'll be losing it all. It was easy to lift floorboards and cut channels in walls when the whole house is being torn apart; but when you're looking at houses that don't need that sort of renovation (as we currently are) it's a little more...problematic.
After living here 3.5 years we're now thinking about moving and it's quite sickening to think I'll be losing it all. It was easy to lift floorboards and cut channels in walls when the whole house is being torn apart; but when you're looking at houses that don't need that sort of renovation (as we currently are) it's a little more...problematic.
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Soldato
What did you use those at least 4 ethernet ports to every room for though in those 3.5 years? Are you really going to miss them? I have a 2000+ square foot house and it's fully covered with wifi. Apart from my microserver, Hue and Hive switches which are next to the router everything else I own doesn't need to be cabled.
Even at work I rarely use wired ethernet cables anymore.
Someone will be ripping all these cables out of houses in 10 years, like I'm doing in our house with UHF coax and telephone cables at the moment.
Even at work I rarely use wired ethernet cables anymore.
Someone will be ripping all these cables out of houses in 10 years, like I'm doing in our house with UHF coax and telephone cables at the moment.
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Soldato
I have a family of four, it works fine. But generally we are all watching the same thing (unless I'm watching sport with my lads). All four of us watching different things works fine, but is an absolute edge case, we are a family not a student house. These set ups are what I would have loved 15 years ago, but in 2016 the thought of having a massive 1x16 port telephony panel and cabinet under my stairs seems absolutely crazy. This is legacy technology.
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