Puntoboy
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Edited to add - for those new people coming to this thread. I started this 3 years ago when we moved into our current house. I ended up going with CAT6 cable but didn't do all the runs I wanted. It was just too time consuming and required cutting more holes in the walls that I could be bothered to repair. I started off with the BT HH6 and BT Whole Home Wi-Fi and now are using a Ubiquiti ER-X and 3 UAP-AC-Lites. Really happy with it all.
3 years on and we are moving house. Another new build on the same estate but a fair amount bigger. New house means new cabling, but this time I am hoping to get into the house before they finish the walls and get some conduit installed so I can run all my cables once we move in (I'm pushing it with the conduit, I doubt they will let me actually cable the runs as well). The house is currently at concrete slab level.
One little upgrade I would want to make having 6a cable out to the garage, unfortunately it's over 55m and I would like to add 10GB Ethernet for a future project, so I need at least 150m of CAT6a just for that run, I'm thinking that I may as well run 6a everywhere rather than 6. The problem is price as 6a is around twice the price of 6 for 500m. I need to decide if I want to spend that money. I don't have a current need for 10GB elsewhere in the house, only between the central point in the house (where the comms cabinet will be) and the garage so maybe just 6A for that run.
3 years on and we are moving house. Another new build on the same estate but a fair amount bigger. New house means new cabling, but this time I am hoping to get into the house before they finish the walls and get some conduit installed so I can run all my cables once we move in (I'm pushing it with the conduit, I doubt they will let me actually cable the runs as well). The house is currently at concrete slab level.
One little upgrade I would want to make having 6a cable out to the garage, unfortunately it's over 55m and I would like to add 10GB Ethernet for a future project, so I need at least 150m of CAT6a just for that run, I'm thinking that I may as well run 6a everywhere rather than 6. The problem is price as 6a is around twice the price of 6 for 500m. I need to decide if I want to spend that money. I don't have a current need for 10GB elsewhere in the house, only between the central point in the house (where the comms cabinet will be) and the garage so maybe just 6A for that run.
Hi everyone,
We've bought a new build that will be complete in about a month. Unfortunately I could not come to an agreement with the builder to install CAT6 cable for me whilst they were building the house so I'm going to have to do it myself when we move in. I'm used to cabling, I work in IT, so going to be fine doing the work. However I have never wired a house before and it's a bit different to offices. I'm intending to use shielded CAT6 cable.
My intention is to have the following:
Living room - 3 outlets
Bed 1 - 3 outlets
Bed 2 - 3 outlets
Bed 3 (my office) - 4 outlets
Garage - 3 outlets
There is a central cupboard in the house where Openreach will be installing the ONT for FTTP broadband so I'm planning on putting all there other kit in here as well. The garage is detached about about 5 metres from the house, I'm planning on digging a channel, installing a duct (with pull cord) and laying exterior CAT6 cable with a water pipe to the garage (I'm installing the water as well - so it will be deep ~750mm). I'm also planning on running a couple of cables down from the soffits for CCTV.
My questions are:
Where is best to buy the cable? I could buy it through work but weirdly it doesn't seem as well priced are some of the websites I've seen.
Are there any tips and tricks for running cables inside a house? The walls have metal studs and as far as I know there are no horizontal battens.
Do I need a shielded patch panel with the shielded cable? My experience says no but best to check.
Does anything see any problems with that I intend to do?
Thanks
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