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| Thread ID: 52884 | 2005-01-02 02:00:00 | Running Ethernet through walls | Ash M (46) | Press F1 |
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| 309700 | 2005-01-02 08:21:00 | I think DSE only stocks Cat6 now but same diff :) What?! I'm positive I read somewhere that Cat5e is more future-proof than Cat6, and it's put me off Cat6. So why would DSE do such an evil thing? :confused: |
agent (30) | ||
| 309701 | 2005-01-02 08:25:00 | Personally i would just pull up a section of carpet and drill a hole through the floor Exactly what I did in my office. Bought a 25m cable and ran it under the floor with the two ends poking up at the appropriate places. Works a treat and you can't see the cable under the desk either. Of course you could do the same thing running the cable up the corner of the room and through the ceiling if you have concrete floors. If you are going to lift carpet then factor in the cost of a tradesman to refit it, not really a job you can do yourself very easily. |
Sb0h (3744) | ||
| 309702 | 2005-01-02 08:50:00 | If you do have a concrete floor or a low floor go for the ceiling route and drill down through the joists (long drill, I welded a drill on a rod). TedHEATH |
tedheath (537) | ||
| 309703 | 2005-01-02 10:15:00 | Even if the rooms aren't next to each other and you have wardrobes then either go thru the wall between the wardrobes or up through ceiling in one wardrobe, along to next wardrobe, and back down. You can tidily route the cable down the inside of the wardrobe and lift the carpet from the smoothedge (if any) and run from there to location of PC in the room. :D |
Jester (13) | ||
| 309704 | 2005-01-04 01:33:00 | Not many electricians have the necessary tool to fit Cat 5 plugs to the cable. But most will have the IDP tool to connect the (solid conductor) fixed CATX cable to the sockets on wall plates. It's a standard Krone 110 tool. (Some of the sockets come with retainer caps which can be used to make the installation ...I prefer to use the tool.:D) It's not worth paying someone to make up patch cables. There are two styles of RJ45 plugs --- the internals are different for solid conductor and stranded cables. Using the wrong ones will make for unreliable cables. Just make sure the electrician knows data cabling ... the cable is twisted pair, and must be used as pairs. The pin numbering for the pairs is not intuitive (to some people). The pairs use pins: 1&2, 3&6, 4&5, 7&8. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 309705 | 2005-01-04 02:00:00 | Hello Ash, Have a look at DSE catalogue number XH6839 or XH6774 using these products you can setup your network with no need to drill through walls or ceilings etc. just plug each device into a standard powerpoint and network as normal, it works very well and makes it easy to move your network anywhere you desire (as long as you have access to a power point) current price $156.00 for two ($78.00 each) probably cheaper than paying an electrician for running a cable etc. Regards AC |
Alan Cotrell (6634) | ||
| 309706 | 2005-01-04 03:02:00 | Good idea Alan, apart from the first posting that mentions he wants the cabling due to bandwidth requirements. RF can go to 50Mb/s, your suggested mains connections go to 14Mb/s, whereas the cat5e cable can go to 100Mb/s easily. And Agent, the CAT6 is rated up to 1Gb/s, so that makes it better, not worse. Damn confusing I know. |
pheonix (36) | ||
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