Structured Cabling - Where to buy? What to be aware of?

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Hi folks,

I am planning to run several network points in my living room and dining room. TBC on whether I allow TV/ethernet in every alcove (possibly OTT on flexibility front on where the TV may live) but broadly something like below:

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The termination point is beneath the stairs. I'm thinking the easiest way to achieve two points per "location" is to grab two boxes of 50M CAT6 and run two at a time.

Question -
Any guidance on good quality ports? I am thinking modular may look best (something I have done years ago at the bottom of this post.

Any guidance or leads on where to get the cabling? I see TIME are for sale on Screwfix at £50 a box.

It is also a floating floor - but the joists sit on another adjacent joist - so I can essentially run the cables freely from one side of the house to the other. Is it a problem to just leave the cables "lying on the subfloor"? Or should I run them in between the floor boards and the subfloor?

Bonus question around any guidance on running aerials :D


Something I did 7 years ago (apparently):

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I take a "do as I say, not as I do" approach to this. So while I would happily recommend Excel cable all day long, I used Comms Express own-brand Cat6 for my own house and it worked out fine. I did buy the Excel modules though, got a decent eBay deal for a pack of 20 low-profile ones. I've changed my opinion on this now and would do keystone jacks with the adaptors to angle them to 45 degrees to fit in a euro frame if I did it again.
 
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I take a "do as I say, not as I do" approach to this. So while I would happily recommend Excel cable all day long, I used Comms Express own-brand Cat6 for my own house and it worked out fine. I did buy the Excel modules though, got a decent eBay deal for a pack of 20 low-profile ones. I've changed my opinion on this now and would do keystone jacks with the adaptors to angle them to 45 degrees to fit in a euro frame if I did it again.
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Any particular brand for the euro module?

Screwfix are quite expensive for RJ45 modules...
 
Caged said:
I take a "do as I say, not as I do" approach to this. So while I would happily recommend Excel cable all day long, I used Comms Express own-brand Cat6 for my own house and it worked out fine. I did buy the Excel modules though, got a decent eBay deal for a pack of 20 low-profile ones. I've changed my opinion on this now and would do keystone jacks with the adaptors to angle them to 45 degrees to fit in a euro frame if I did it again.
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Another +1 to comms express own brand. I don't think they come in 50m though? - plus 50m really isn't a lot unless you've got very straightforward runs. I think the box I bought was 307m probably used about 200m of it.

Edit: are you also not planning on running any upstairs?
 
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I bought 2x 100m reels and they did 12 drops with maybe a quarter of the second reel left. Once you start routing cables in neat and logical routes you burn through it really quickly.
 
Semple said:
Another +1 to comms express own brand. I don't think they come in 50m though? - plus 50m really isn't a lot unless you've got very straightforward runs. I think the box I bought was 307m probably used about 200m of it.

Edit: are you also not planning on running any upstairs?
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I am --- I figure downstairs following the rabbit warrens of floorboards/joists/walls/water hazards(:D) will be about 10M x5 - then I am only really planning 1 or 2 pulls for upstairs, really I just need the attic connected for the fibre modem.

Maybe I'll get a box of 50 + 100...
 
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