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Laying some ethernet cable in a house
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13-11-2012 11:08am#1
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Hi. It's carpet over floorboards. A good 3 feet cavity below boards.
Not sure if professionals have tools to do this without having to take up carpet, boards etc
If you were able to run it yourself and then hire out the tools or buy them online, you can get them cheap.
You would possible need a cable tester:
A punch down tool:
And a crimp:
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...Or depending on what you need to run over it, you could save yourself a lot of hassle by using ethernet over mains adapters like these?
Used one recently (think it was this one). Struggled a bit when I needed high BW and low latency at the same time but for regular use it was absolutely fine. (I was also running it at a distance of over 50m which probably didnt help!)
You did say ethernet which implies you need network but if its actually the copper i.e. cat5/6 you need for another application (like phones, intercoms etc, etc,) then this obviously wont help
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If you were able to run it yourself and then hire out the tools or buy them online, you can get them cheap.
You would possible need a cable tester:
A punch down tool:
And a crimp:
You forgot 1 important thing.....
RJ45 glass plugs (if for a server,modem,or back of Sky Box)
Also you forgot the colour code for making off RJ45 plugs.....;)
White Orange
Orange
White Green
Blue
White Blue
Green
White Brown
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...Or depending on what you need to run over it, you could save yourself a lot of hassle by using ethernet over mains adapters like these?
Used one recently (think it was this one). Struggled a bit when I needed high BW and low latency at the same time but for regular use it was absolutely fine. (I was also running it at a distance of over 50m which probably didnt help!)
You did say ethernet which implies you need network but if its actually the copper i.e. cat5/6 you need for another application (like phones, intercoms etc, etc,) then this obviously wont help
Thanks. Currently using 200Mbps homeplugs, but only get 54Mbps max out of them, and need to stream HD.0 -
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Thanks. Currently using 200Mbps homeplugs, but only get 54Mbps max out of them, and need to stream HD.
Fair point -, been there as well, you need a minimum of 100Mbps for consistent transport on HD Stuff.
I'd second the skirting board option - could be a lot easier than lifting carpets, parts of floorboard and fishing. IMO that approach is likely to be a big disruption and mess.
To avoid taking paint off the walls when removing skirting boards, run a stanley knife along the top of the skirting where it meets the wall first to "disconnect" the skirting from the paint on the wall.
When re-fitting skirting use a very thin run of "Painters mate" or interior frame sealer to close the small gap between the top of the skirting and the wall.
Also if your walls are dry lined or plasterboarded, you will probably have a nice convenient gap under the plasterboard behind the skirting to run cables in, if not (i.e. your skirtings are plonked straight on to a plastered block wall, then you could try this...
Cat 5e/6 cables are typically between 6 and 8mm thick, the bottom or thickest part of your skirting could be around 18mm thick, In the past I have used a router to route a channel about 8mm deep in the back of the skirting to take the cables around a room. Be careful that you dont take too much thickness out of the skirting and abour how you re-fit the skirting if doing this as there is the risk that it could crack along the line where you cut the channel out of the back of the board.
Would also recommend using sockets to terminate both ends of the Cable and fitting these in boxes mounted to the wall instead of crimping a plug directly on to the end of the cable as 1 it is a "proper job" and 2 I think it looks better to have an outlet with a patch cable connected to it than have a cable with a plug on it dangling out of the wall or floor somewhere. Using sockets does add to the cost but is cancelled out by the fact that you will only need a punchdown tool to terminate the cables at the sockets and not a crimp tool to fit rj45 plugs onto cables (assuming you will also get patch leads from work).
Finally if you want to run Gig, pay careful attention to all 8 wires when making off connections, 10/100M only needs 2 pairs (1,2,3,6 - Orange and Green), Gig requires (in some cases) all 4 pairs - that one caught me out lately 0 -
Fair point -, been there as well, you need a minimum of 100Mbps for consistent transport on HD Stuff.
I'd second the skirting board option - could be a lot easier than lifting carpets, parts of floorboard and fishing. IMO that approach is likely to be a big disruption and mess.
To avoid taking paint off the walls when removing skirting boards, run a stanley knife along the top of the skirting where it meets the wall first to "disconnect" the skirting from the paint on the wall.
When re-fitting skirting use a very thin run of "Painters mate" or interior frame sealer to close the small gap between the top of the skirting and the wall.
Also if your walls are dry lined or plasterboarded, you will probably have a nice convenient gap under the plasterboard behind the skirting to run cables in, if not (i.e. your skirtings are plonked straight on to a plastered block wall, then you could try this...
Cat 5e/6 cables are typically between 6 and 8mm thick, the bottom or thickest part of your skirting could be around 18mm thick, In the past I have used a router to route a channel about 8mm deep in the back of the skirting to take the cables around a room. Be careful that you dont take too much thickness out of the skirting and abour how you re-fit the skirting if doing this as there is the risk that it could crack along the line where you cut the channel out of the back of the board.
Would also recommend using sockets to terminate both ends of the Cable and fitting these in boxes mounted to the wall instead of crimping a plug directly on to the end of the cable as 1 it is a "proper job" and 2 I think it looks better to have an outlet with a patch cable connected to it than have a cable with a plug on it dangling out of the wall or floor somewhere. Using sockets does add to the cost but is cancelled out by the fact that you will only need a punchdown tool to terminate the cables at the sockets and not a crimp tool to fit rj45 plugs onto cables (assuming you will also get patch leads from work).
Finally if you want to run Gig, pay careful attention to all 8 wires when making off connections, 10/100M only needs 2 pairs (1,2,3,6 - Orange and Green), Gig requires (in some cases) all 4 pairs - that one caught me out lately
You dont even need that.
If using propper systimax outlets,shutters and face plates,all you need is......
1 pipe grips
1 stanley knife or cable stripper
1 sharp snips.
if the outlets are Krone..then you need a Krone tool.
Simples.:)0 -
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