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Did some Ethernet wiring...
Posted on 4/30/24 at 2:54 pm
Posted on 4/30/24 at 2:54 pm
Holy God. It doesn't sound like as much work as it ends up being. I have a new server closet so I installed a 6 port wallplate and fed 600' of shielded cat6 down and around and around and into the crawl space. Becuase I had to push it through with a metal rod, i ended up with piles of cable all over the floor and had to come up and down from the crawlspace 100,000x to adjust kinks and get it all through.
protip: write the number of the cable using a sharpie about 15x at each end so you don't get confused later.
one of the 6 cables fed under the house and comes out by the front door for the reolink doorbell.
the second line is cat8 all the way to my office which then feeds into a 6 port switch and fuels my work PC, 2 arcade cabinets, a virtual pinball machine and raspberry pi.
took another line and fed it through a hole I made in the masonry into the garage and up into the side attic on the second floor. My son came over and we had a 16' ladder to use to 'pin' the cable to a stud in the corner of the garage all the way up and then into the ceiling. I can't stand cable staples that fall out of drywall after a year.
we then cut a hole in the cabinet in the upstairs room (which had an outlet inside of it) that opens into the 'side' attic and connected a 5 port PoE switch. there was actually an outlet in the attic space but it gets so hot in there i'd rather not have anything in there except the actual ethernet cables.
then ran one line out of that switch to the farthest corner of the attic then out behind the TV and connected it to a 6 port switch which is feeding the TV, xbox, nintendo and sonos.
2 of the remaining 3 ports on the PoE switch will feed outside of the house through a small opening we found in tht attic and we'll run the cable along the eaves to 2 cameras.
the 3rd line will run along the entire back of the house to the far corner and into the den behind the TV. from there we will put in another small PoE switch to power 2 cameras on the far side of the house.
*whew*
oh and these all feed into the 24 port HP managed swich i've had forever and the reolink NVR also connects to the switch.
brought a tear to my eye when i plugged the camera in upstairs to test it and it showed up in the app.
tl;dr it seems alot 'easier' to pull cable than it actually ends up being. we actually had to sit around and scratch our asses to think through how we could mix regular and PoE cables so we could hardwire all the stuff upstairs and still power all the cameras on the exterior of the house.
protip: write the number of the cable using a sharpie about 15x at each end so you don't get confused later.
one of the 6 cables fed under the house and comes out by the front door for the reolink doorbell.
the second line is cat8 all the way to my office which then feeds into a 6 port switch and fuels my work PC, 2 arcade cabinets, a virtual pinball machine and raspberry pi.
took another line and fed it through a hole I made in the masonry into the garage and up into the side attic on the second floor. My son came over and we had a 16' ladder to use to 'pin' the cable to a stud in the corner of the garage all the way up and then into the ceiling. I can't stand cable staples that fall out of drywall after a year.
we then cut a hole in the cabinet in the upstairs room (which had an outlet inside of it) that opens into the 'side' attic and connected a 5 port PoE switch. there was actually an outlet in the attic space but it gets so hot in there i'd rather not have anything in there except the actual ethernet cables.
then ran one line out of that switch to the farthest corner of the attic then out behind the TV and connected it to a 6 port switch which is feeding the TV, xbox, nintendo and sonos.
2 of the remaining 3 ports on the PoE switch will feed outside of the house through a small opening we found in tht attic and we'll run the cable along the eaves to 2 cameras.
the 3rd line will run along the entire back of the house to the far corner and into the den behind the TV. from there we will put in another small PoE switch to power 2 cameras on the far side of the house.
*whew*
oh and these all feed into the 24 port HP managed swich i've had forever and the reolink NVR also connects to the switch.
brought a tear to my eye when i plugged the camera in upstairs to test it and it showed up in the app.
tl;dr it seems alot 'easier' to pull cable than it actually ends up being. we actually had to sit around and scratch our asses to think through how we could mix regular and PoE cables so we could hardwire all the stuff upstairs and still power all the cameras on the exterior of the house.
Posted on 4/30/24 at 3:00 pm to CAD703X
shielded cat6? Cat 8? Do you just buy stuff that sounds cool?
Posted on 4/30/24 at 5:31 pm to CAD703X
quote:are bad, especially the higher-up you go in Cat-echism (sorry, I mean the data speed you are trying to push through the cable).
kinks
You might want to certify those cables if you are aiming for the highest speeds on your block.
Posted on 4/30/24 at 7:50 pm to CAD703X
quote:
protip: write the number of the cable using a sharpie about 15x at each end so you don't get confused later.
It makes it so much easier when you mark both ends of the cable. You could always ohm it out but why not just mark them and skip that step
Posted on 5/1/24 at 10:48 pm to CAD703X
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cat8 all the way to my office which then feeds into a 6 port switch
1gig NIC on each end?
Posted on 5/13/24 at 2:26 am to CAD703X
Ring wireless not an option?
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