Ethernet house wiring ideas?
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I’ll be a bit radical. It doesn’t matter at all what you run to the sockets - what is important is the ducting. Make sure you can run whatever cables you want in the future. If in 5 years you want to run fibre to your desktop, you can. It may seem laughable now, but GigE doesn’t cut it for HD movies - if I’m moving 27 GB files about, the limiting factor is the GigE network. In a decade, all films will be this size, and some will be an as yet uninvented 10k or whatever.
I’ve got a duct into every room, all rooms have 2 drops of Cat5e, the office has 8 and the corner with the tv in it has 4. If I want fibre, I simply have to lift a floor board and run it to the socket.
I’ve got a duct into every room, all rooms have 2 drops of Cat5e, the office has 8 and the corner with the tv in it has 4. If I want fibre, I simply have to lift a floor board and run it to the socket.
Gingerbread Man said:
Does ethernet have maximum distance? I fancy one day installing an electric gate. If I were to run ethernet from the house, say 100m. I guess that wouldn't prove an issue.
Thanks all for your insight so far.
Generally 90m with an allowance for 5m of patch cable at each end. Thanks all for your insight so far.
If you were planning on using the cable to run an intercom or camera you may run into voltage drop issues at that distance.
Two wire intercoms should work providing you double up on the cores. Best to run power to the gate though and power the devices locally.
Gingerbread Man said:
Does ethernet have maximum distance? I fancy one day installing an electric gate. If I were to run ethernet from the house, say 100m. I guess that wouldn't prove an issue.
Thanks all for your insight so far.
With a little veracity longspan adaptor you can go 800m on a single segment. 100-110m is fine for a single segment.Thanks all for your insight so far.
I moved into a brand new 2bedroom property a couple of months ago, and while being built i spoke to the electrician and he helped me buy laying network cable in the wall before the plasterboard went up so it is all hidden
I went cat7 myself rather than cat6, rated higher speeds and has shielded pairs on top of the overall wrap, electrician said was easier to deal with as thicker due to this and i wanted to make sure if it was going in it had spare capacity for the future.
I had 3 points i wanted to connect, in my living room near my tv and where my internet comes in and then a point in my spare room for my desk and PC and in my room for future planing such as smart tv
I added 2 points in each location for redundancy so ended up with 3 lines of course, they all join up under my stairs in a cupboard where i have a gigbit switch linking it all up
My asus router is in the living room and plus into the port, i was hoping that i could put it under the stairs but i ran into a number of issues with packet loss after this and i am not sure if this was overheating as i stacked the switch on the router or if it was my internet line. I have wireless internet due to crap fibre dsl and no virgin, this works with a POE antenna on my roof and a box which passes this to a RJ45 port i connect to my router. I plugged this into one of the wall ports and moved the router to the cupboard, like i say lots of issues and moved back and non so leaving it in place for the time being
I should hopefully be geting a cisco 50 port switch for overkill for my cupboard and an older dell rackmounted server from work, which i plan on putting in a rackmounted case in my cupboard for VM's for things to really geek out lol
I went cat7 myself rather than cat6, rated higher speeds and has shielded pairs on top of the overall wrap, electrician said was easier to deal with as thicker due to this and i wanted to make sure if it was going in it had spare capacity for the future.
I had 3 points i wanted to connect, in my living room near my tv and where my internet comes in and then a point in my spare room for my desk and PC and in my room for future planing such as smart tv
I added 2 points in each location for redundancy so ended up with 3 lines of course, they all join up under my stairs in a cupboard where i have a gigbit switch linking it all up
My asus router is in the living room and plus into the port, i was hoping that i could put it under the stairs but i ran into a number of issues with packet loss after this and i am not sure if this was overheating as i stacked the switch on the router or if it was my internet line. I have wireless internet due to crap fibre dsl and no virgin, this works with a POE antenna on my roof and a box which passes this to a RJ45 port i connect to my router. I plugged this into one of the wall ports and moved the router to the cupboard, like i say lots of issues and moved back and non so leaving it in place for the time being
I should hopefully be geting a cisco 50 port switch for overkill for my cupboard and an older dell rackmounted server from work, which i plan on putting in a rackmounted case in my cupboard for VM's for things to really geek out lol
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