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New home need direction (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/networking@sh.itjust.works
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I will be moving into a new house in a few weeks. It's an older house (built in the 60s) and hasn't had much updates in terms of wiring. I want to be able to run a hardwire cable to each bedroom to maximize my Internet performance. My wife works from home and I'm hybrid, so I want to ensure we're not just flying on WiFi.

Are there any resources or how tos that can give me some information on where to start? What to look for? What to do first?

I'm struggling with figuring out what I should try to tackle. Should I just run an Ethernet line to the room that's an office and start there? Or is there some well thought out approach I can make?

I know this is probably vague, but any assistance would be appreciated.

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[–] [S] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

Good tip on going into the attic/under the roof. I'll have an attic in this place so maybe that's the best option to run the wires.

I've patched drywall a handful of times. I'm good enough at it that I can get it done it just takes me longer than it should hahaha.

In terms of what I want... It's going to be 2 work from home stations/desks. These won't move. A gaming setup (this is what I want hard wired the most).

But I also want to have a drop in each bedroom - just in case.

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    Just keep in mind thing forward. Like at a minimum get cat6. The price difference between it and cat5 is not that much and it essentially means you can wire your house for 10 gigabit, even if you’re not putting the hardware behind for that now. Unless you have a run longer than 180 feet, which maybe if you do weird runs like I did or your house is gigantic

    Then think of what you want down the line, even if you don’t have hardware now. I did my camera poe drops even though I didn’t have all my cameras, as an example. Exterior cameras, interior, doorbell, etc. smart home stuff in general if you use it too. I ended up doing so many drops. Planning ahead meant I could fish bundles of cables when possible. Like in my living room I have a few Ethernet devices so I fished 5 cables at once

    Oh also get a cheap label maker, will make your life so much easier. Label everything. Label both ends. Label the jack, label the cable, label the front, label the back. You can get cartridges for label makers that are heat shrink instead of labels and will print directly on the heat shrink. This is by far the most helpful part

    And just use t568b and be consistent. For some reason I did 568a on a few jacks early on and it was a pain figuring that out. A cheap cable/jack tester is like $4-9 on aliexpress and will make life easier

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