Wired underfloor in the walls network

doggles

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Hi'a

as the title says, i'm considering properly wiring up my home network with internet plug points for the rooms rather then a length of cable taped round the corner of the room to the 2nd pc etc.

Has anyone done this? if so any tips?

I was going to use the virgin router which I have and just some normal network cable gouge a channel out of the wall with a square hole, put a socket into in and run the cables under the floor boards.

It seems simple apart from the lifting floor boards part -is there anything im missing?
 
All i did was take 300m of cat5e from my server room at work, went under the stairs to the landing then just split off into each room. only took me a few hours. Although i must say i am usless with the crimping tool.

Theres not really much that can go wrong. just dont take the wire outside unless you have external grade wire
 
And dont just "take" cable from anywhere, make sure its all kocher ;) :p

As he says, theres nothing to it really. Personally I run the cable from under the floorboard, up the skirting and to a wall box.
 
My tip is to remove the skirting if you have a modernish house. Cheap and easy and looks the best as you cant see the wires. Buy some shallow metal boxes - couple of quid from b&q and get the faceplates from ebay.
 
Indeed, you're better off wiring sockets as they're both neater and the punchdown tools are far easier than crimping bloody plugs on the ends (after 10 years of making cables on and off my success rate still isn't much above 50%)
 
@spoon

Hope you didnt think i meant steal.

i upgraded all my servers and nearby rooms to cat6 so we have lots and lots and lots of boxes of cat5 thats been taking up room in my office for many years
 
i did this at my old place, def use faceplates and backboxs. It's much neater.

cablewise, any, cat5e/cat6. If the cable is going be properly secured, and not get constantly trod on / fatigued then use solid not stranded.
 
thanks,

I have a netgear wgr614 router. is it worth the cost to upgrade it to a newer one that may have a faster connection speed since the wireless part would become redundant?
 
ChrisLUFC said:
@spoon

Hope you didnt think i meant steal.

i upgraded all my servers and nearby rooms to cat6 so we have lots and lots and lots of boxes of cat5 thats been taking up room in my office for many years
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M'only kidding man, it's just the way you phrased it ;)
 
FrenchTart said:
You don't need cat6 for gigabit speeds.
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correct. I use cat5e but u have to make sure all 8 wires are connected correctly or you will only get 100 speed.

My tip would be to run 2 cables to each room. You can have two ports on 1 single socket sized faceplate. Or like me in my pc room a double socket sized with 4 plugholes :) not really that much more effort and well worth it IMO
 
you might find your skirting boards have enough of gap at the bottom to sqeeze a cable in , avoids lifting floorboards, works ok for carpeted rooms not for hard flooring
 
groen said:
use cat6

gigabit network :D

but you could get those ethernet over power atapters, but not as good
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I thought about using the powerline ethernets but for the cost could just do a wired network cheaper and not loose a power outlet :)

errata said:
you might find your skirting boards have enough of gap at the bottom to sqeeze a cable in , avoids lifting floorboards, works ok for carpeted rooms not for hard flooring
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thanks, my house is old so i have to lift the floorboards as the skirting boards are nailed directly to the wall.

gives me a chance to have a look inside the house's insides i guess.
 
doggles said:
I thought about using the powerline ethernets but for the cost could just do a wired network cheaper and not loose a power outlet :)
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and if your house is old, the wiring may not be great and powerlines would be poor.
 
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