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Ol' reliable (thelemmy.club)
submitted 3 days ago by [M] to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[–] 27 points 3 days ago (8 children)

I climbed up in the roof crawl space (by no stretch is it an "attic") and ran Cat6 to every room in my house 15 years ago. The living room and two smaller bedrooms got one, and the master bedroom got two.

I'm very happy with the upgrade. I also run WiFi, of course, for phones and tablets, and my kid's Steam Deck, etc.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago (5 children)

    I did the same but cat6a like 5 years ago. Though mine was primarily to limit wireless packet snooping/attacks, especially for devices that never got wpa3 support, not speed. There's like 50-60 devices on my network and all but two were wireless...

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago (4 children)

    Did you do solid core in the walls? Then stranded just for the final stretch or all solid?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    I just ran patch cables, got them from Monoprice. Every room got a different color, in case I ever need to repair/replace a rooms connecting cable. Router to switch, switch to wall, wall to attic to other wall, wall to device. With faceplates + keystone jacks between the two sides of the walls.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago* (2 children)

    Patch cable is stranded so it is pretty flexible. I can't imagine you'll need to redo one unless some nefarious animal starts gnawing on something.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Yeah, it's one of those things where I was like, 'it's no extra cost, and can save me headaches in the future' so why not. And I used the same colors for the entire run of each room, so if I ever forget what color a room is, I just look at the wall plate and cable.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

    Yeah I've never had colors but we used to run them in offices when we needed and we would just label the patch panels and wires and id just tape the ends and mark a sharpie like A1, A2,...A8, B1 etc when pulling, where A would be room and number would be the port. Then if you had multiple racks/closets we would do something like 224-C4 on the plate side, so you could say this is patched in in room 224, rack C, switch 4.

    I remember after a hurricane we were moving my company to another building and installing everything, we had crabs under the floor in the tubes they had to run cables so you could access them in the center of rooms or in areas that wouldnt have an easy drop on the first floor. First time I ever had gotten pinched by a crab trying to get them out lol.

    Pretty sure I started discussing one project and ended with another, so that may make no sense. Sorry for rambling.

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