wiring the house Cat5e or cat 6

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looking to run some hard lines round the house as getting utterly fed up with laggy wifi and slow speeds off of homeplugs

gigabit speeds would be perfect i would imagine although cat6 and being able to future proof a bit for 10gb might be an idea.............

is there much of a difference in termination for a noob? ie one much easier than the other?

whats a decent brand of cable and connectors to look out for?

any useful tips?
 
For the negligible cost difference you may as well go Cat6 but you do need to watch your turns more with Cat6 as it’s a bit stiffer and doesn’t like tight corners.

Just make sure you get pure copper cable, not copper covered aluminium.
 
Cat5e is easier to deal with, but not massively. It will take slightly longer to terminate, but that shouldn't be an issue for a DIY domestic install. If this is your first install you aren't going to be particularly quick anyway.

At domestic distances, Cat5e should support 10GBe but there's more of a guarantee with Cat6.

It'll also depend on how it'll be installed. If you're surface clipping around skirtings and doors I'd use Cat5e for the thinner, more flexible, cable.
 
that might be a problem its going across the living room into the cupboard under the stairs then up into the loft from there to drop down in the rooms upstairsso perhaps cat6 isnt a great option
 
Four times the cable diameter (about an inch).

In reality, you can get away with lots of things you shouldn't do (for Gigabit speeds at least). You can tie a knot in a patch cord and it'll still work.
 
Oh and if you’re doing the work now run two cables each if you have space. If one goes bad then no need to drop back to WiFi or run another. And minimum two connections in each room too.
 
I'd agree with running more cables than you actually need at the moment, but only because the cable is cheap and the number of ports required is often underestimated. The odds of a cable spontaneously going bad is just about zero.

Better, if you can, to run the cables in such a way that replacing/adding cables is possible.
 
are you also going to terminate the ends on a patch panel in the central point, and wall plates at the remote ends, and not stick rj45's on each end?
 
rorton said:
are you also going to terminate the ends on a patch panel in the central point, and wall plates at the remote ends, and not stick rj45's on each end?
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most likely

will be one feed from modem into a switch int the cupboard under the stairs then spreading ouf from there either into wall plates where appropriate or just feeds with rj45s into switches for example in the boys rooms (tv pc ps4 etc all requiring a connection
 
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