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Wiring a 120 year old house with Cat6
Posted on 3/15/17 at 12:53 pm
Posted on 3/15/17 at 12:53 pm
Guy buys a literal mile of Cat6 cable and wires up his whole house.
reddit DIY link
Imugr album link
Nice work, IMO. I really would like to do my house, maybe I'll get around to it one day.
reddit DIY link
Imugr album link
Nice work, IMO. I really would like to do my house, maybe I'll get around to it one day.
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Posted on 3/15/17 at 1:01 pm to colorchangintiger
I literally just finished reading that on Reddit...
Posted on 3/15/17 at 1:02 pm to colorchangintiger
Damn. I did 13 ports and that was tedious enough for me.
Posted on 3/15/17 at 1:05 pm to ILikeLSUToo
Im trying to think what needs this guy has for all of that CAT6 wire.
Posted on 3/15/17 at 1:19 pm to colorchangintiger
Serious question as a tech retard, what benefits does this provide? I don't know that I've never needed more than my wifi
Posted on 3/15/17 at 1:25 pm to KarlMalonesFlipPhone
Well it provides much faster internet. I know that much. I dont know what other advantages it provides.
Posted on 3/15/17 at 1:41 pm to bbap
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Well it provides much faster internet. I know that much. I dont know what other advantages it provides.
Not really.
The advantage is it doesn't get interference from other wireless things going on in your house.
And I may be wrong, so correct me if so, but if you have 150Mb/s internet, then 150Mb/s goes through each cable, regardless of how many users are using the internet. Each user on Ethernet gets 150Mb/s.
With wireless, if you have 150Mb/s, then you can only use 150Mb/s at any given time all together. Each user adds to each other and you can't go over the 150Mb/s.
You could have 100+ people using 10MB/s watching an HD movie at the same time if they are all on Ethernet, assuming you have 150Mb/s internet.
You can only have 10-15 people do that wirelessly at best on the same internet speed.
Posted on 3/15/17 at 1:50 pm to TeddyPadillac
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And I may be wrong, so correct me if so, but if you have 150Mb/s internet, then 150Mb/s goes through each cable, regardless of how many users are using the internet. Each user on Ethernet gets 150Mb/s.
With wireless, if you have 150Mb/s, then you can only use 150Mb/s at any given time all together. Each user adds to each other and you can't go over the 150Mb/s.
You could have 100+ people using 10MB/s watching an HD movie at the same time if they are all on Ethernet, assuming you have 150Mb/s internet.
You can only have 10-15 people do that wirelessly at best on the same internet speed.
That's not how it works. You only have what is coming into your house to divide. Whatever speed you have coming into your house is your roof, which is also the ceiling.
This post was edited on 3/15/17 at 1:52 pm
Posted on 3/15/17 at 2:25 pm to WavinWilly
thank you for clearing that up then. Thought I had read that a while back, but I must have remembered it wrong.
Posted on 3/15/17 at 2:25 pm to KarlMalonesFlipPhone
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Serious question as a tech retard, what benefits does this provide? I don't know that I've never needed more than my wifi
More secure. More reliable. I have a Plex server with a shitload of movies that I can access from anywhere, but it's over wifi. Sometimes I'll go to watch a movie and the server is disconnected for some reason. If it were over ethernet this wouldn't (or shouldn't) happen. Sometimes when I'm on the local network, i.e. watching something off of Plex in my living room, I'll get an error that my network isn't fast enough to play the file (wifi interference). Sometimes its hard for me to get a good wifi signal in my bedroom, even though I have a powerful wifi router and an access point. If I ran ethernet back to my bedroom, I could put a 2nd access point and have a very strong wifi signal.
Posted on 3/15/17 at 2:52 pm to TeddyPadillac
quote:
thank you for clearing that up then. Thought I had read that a while back, but I must have remembered it wrong.
Was it about intranet speeds? If everything is wired using gigabit cards, then computer A could transit with server 1 at a full gigabit at the same time as computer B is transmitting with server 2 at a gigabit. However, wireless would be limited to the speed ratings of the router/access point and wireless cards. If everything had matching AC1200 wireless, then everything would be getting a share of the 1200 speed and would be lower than the wired gigabit.
Posted on 3/15/17 at 2:53 pm to WavinWilly
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That's not how it works. You only have what is coming into your house to divide. Whatever speed you have coming into your house is your roof, which is also the ceiling.
I LOL'd IRL
Posted on 3/15/17 at 3:09 pm to colorchangintiger
Having a drop ceiling makes it easier....not sure why an old house would have that.
Posted on 3/15/17 at 3:22 pm to Zappas Stache
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Having a drop ceiling makes it easier....not sure why an old house would have that.
I agree.
Posted on 3/15/17 at 3:44 pm to colorchangintiger
I get the benefit of having everything wired, but this is complete overkill IMO.
Posted on 3/16/17 at 12:04 pm to taylork37
As long as any particular cable run isn't longer than 100 to 150 feet, he can see transmit speeds on his network up to 10 Gbps. Seeing that he spent a ton on Cat6, I'm willing to bet he has 10 Gb switches and network cards. The only bottleneck would exist within his computers.
Posted on 3/16/17 at 12:26 pm to colorchangintiger
When I built my house I ran line for 30 ports, and I think last time I checked I only use 5 or 6.
Posted on 3/16/17 at 3:05 pm to colorchangintiger
Between Cat6, Cat5, RG6, speaker wire and various wires for the alarm system, I ran over 2 miles of wiring in my house.
Posted on 3/17/17 at 1:02 pm to Jimbeaux28
Outside of living room, office, and master bedroom I don't see the need for all of that? My current house has Cat5 with multiple hook ups in each bedroom, one in the kitchen, etc. and its complete overkill. If you have a designated office, that and anywhere you watch movies is really the only place you need it. I understand it being nice to have it on every wall so you can move furniture, but realistically this is seldom done. Cool, but as said completely overkill.
Posted on 3/17/17 at 4:17 pm to Zappas Stache
Ya, and normally you wouldn't use emt inside a house either.
Doesn't really look like a house in these limited pictures. Havent gone to reddit though.
Doesn't really look like a house in these limited pictures. Havent gone to reddit though.
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