Wiring my house(internet)

My recommendation is to put a structured wiring box somewhere central, and bring your internet into it and Cat 5e or Cat6 out from there all over the house. Terminate the cable in wall plates in every room and go from there. You can do just about whatever you want with such a setup including reliable wireless over any area in your house. If it were me, I'd go ahead and wire it with coax while its is naked as well, unless you are totally strapped for cash and can't budget for it.

We ran over 1000 ft of cat6 after the flood. Here are some tips:

-keep your router and access point as central as you can get it in the House
-run multiple wires (I did 4) to every location you could possibly use
-buy bulk and DIY
-invest in a good switch to use. Research the different types and what uses you need it for
-test every wire and connection at least two times
-you can get a keystone for pretty much any connection you need. It makes bundling things easier and looks much neater
-do everything before you seal up the walls. Trust me, it’s easier
-do not skimp. Spend a little extra money and get higher quality materials.

Terminate?

Run wires for anything you may want, cameras, tv's, gaming devices, then multiple for the living room and anywhere else you may need more cables.

Punch down blocks are easy once you get past the first few.

Do yourself a favor, catch an AT&T truck in your neighborhood, and ask the technician for 100' or so of fiber optic cable to run from your network closet or wherever you end up placing your modem/router/switch/etc out to your home's utility entrance. Just regular, non-terminated fiber will work fine. The point being that you can run that line while you have the house stripped down. If / when your area gets fiber optic, you'll be setup and ready to go.

Otherwise, be sure you have cat6 in a home run configuration (i.e., from the source to the destination) and not simply daisy chained from one outlet to the next. Also, make sure you have a couple of cat6 feeds heading out to the home's utility entrance.

Otherwise, I'd recommend power and network access somewhere near the top/center of your home. A good wireless router placed in the attic can spread the connection way better than sitting under a desk in some remote room.

Finally, I'd wire every closet with a light switch, a cat6 ethernet feed, and a power source. Obviously, this would be in addition to wiring all the places you know that you will want a hard-wired connection.

If you are certain about cord-cutting, there's no need to run coax. BUT, if you think there's ever a chance you'd want any kind of cable (i.e., Cox, Charter/Spectrum, Dish, DirecTV), then it's a good idea to at least pull RG6 coax to possible TV / internet locations--again with a feed leading out to the home's utility entrance.

As far as putting ends on the Cat6, you can technically cheat by just building a punchdown and then using a short patchcord. In that scenario, you'd pull anywhere from 1 to 6 runs into a common outlet box and then use a 1,2,3,4, or 6 port faceplate to terminate the runs. 12 inch patch cords are way cheaper (and better) to buy premade than the time it takes to build them yourself. Speaking as someone who has built 1000s of patch cords, the premade ones are far superior.

Main point is to just run the wires. Even if they end at a blank faceplate, they are much easier to connect if they are already there versus having to run new ones--speaking as a guy who has to run new ones all day for a living.

Oh, and finally, for the love of God, please, please, please don't staple all that shite to the studs on the way down. If I come behind you and need to pull a different kind of wire (or fiber) down the same wall, the last thing I want to discover is that some fastidious craftsman has nailed everything down--taking away what would otherwise be a perfectly good pull string.

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Probably looking for 8 ports.

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you want more.
I installed this one recently.
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so a random ATT truck wont give a random non ATT customer 100 feet of fiber cable. for free?

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Non terminated fiber? And getting some for free from an Att truck

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Fiber is pretty cheap, 100' probably cost AT&T less than $10. Not so far-fetched for a tech to hand some out for a 6-pack or something.

If you want to make terminating twisted pairs easier order some of the cat6 keystones. I no longer do punch downs because the ones I order have 2 tabs opposite each other that each hold 2 pairs. The only tool needed is a pair of snips to strip the jacket.

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