OT: Home network

[geoffrey mendelson]

On Jun 22, 2009, at 11:15 AM, Meir Michanie wrote:

> Hi List,
> I would like to know if anyone in the list can give me some advise on
> network wiring in a house.
> Does anyone in the list do this kind of work?


I've done my own and later hired someone to do the work for me. You  
can save a lot of money if you:

1. get your own sockets, wire and a "punchdown" aka KRONE (pr crow- 
neh) tool.

2. plan you wiring carefull. Pick a central spot for your router, etc  
where the shortest runs are needed to get to where you need to go.

3. put in extra wires. unterminated (no jacks) wires are cheap, and  
it's just as cheap to run 2 or 3 to a spot as 1 except for the wire.

4. decide what speed you want. I put in CAT 5 wire and used 2 pair per  
jack which gives me 100mbit ethernet. gigbit ethernet is actually 4  
pairs at 250 mbits and you need all 8 cat 6 wires.

5. tough spots can often be done with wireless networking, but it is  
slower than wired and less secure. Plan to put your wifi access point  
if you have one as far as possible from streets, neighbors, etc.

Geoff.

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