Half finished Whole Home structured re-wire
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netboy34 @ 22nd Sep 08:19PM:
Half finished Whole Home structured re-wire
Some background of the project.
Bought the house end of May, and started work on it mid June, Got married end of June and restarted mid July. paused again in August because of long work hours, and just finished to the halfway point today.
House was built in 1999 right before structured wire was common place. So this house had Cat3 wire daisy-chained from phone jack to phone jack, and old coax from each room to the opposite side of where cable would come into the house. Previous owner had dish, and they ran their own lines, so all the coax in the house is unterminated, but old. (most likely rg59 the cable in unmarked)
So begins my project. My goals are as follows:
Vertical chase from Basement to attic. - Done
Conduit to each room in the house. - 50%
Ethernet/phone to each room - 50%
RG6 Quad to every room - 0% (will pull when needed)
Wife's Office 2 Ethernet, 1 phone - 100%
My Office 8 Ethernet, 1 Phone - 0% (Office isn't done/framed yet)
Coax will be when needed because I have U-Verse TV so its running over ethernet.
All ethernet is Cat6 Phone is cat5e - All cable was free :)
Sorry for the orangeness of the pics, its camera phone pics and it can't do florecent well
Color Code:
Orange - Uverse outlet and the keystone jack in wall is also orange
Blue - Data (keystone is a white Cat6 under the orange jack)
Black - phone patch for now, will be gray eventually (keystones are white cat5e)
Black - PoE for the 2 access points I have (empty jacks on the top or the second cat6 panel) keystones are black
Linksys/Cisco switches do data, Netgear does only U-verse
I'm open to all suggestions.
Cat6 Patch Panels |
Cat6 Patch close |
Full Panel |
Data Switches |
Phone Patch |
phone patch Close |
U-Verse Gateway |
Conduit into panel (top) |
Conduit (Rear, Full) |
Conduit (Inside, Top) |
AVonGauss @ 22nd Sep 08:26PM:
Re: Half finished Whole Home structured re-wire
said by netboy34 :
Vertical chase from Basement to attic. - Done
Conduit to each room in the house. - 50%
Ethernet/phone to each room - 50%
RG6 Quad to every room - 0% (will pull when needed)
Wife's Office 2 Ethernet, 1 phone - 100%
My Office 8 Ethernet, 1 Phone - 0% (Office isn't done/framed yet)
Smart man. (emphasis mine)
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NetAdmin @ 22nd Sep 10:54PM:
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Are those ethernet cables coming out of the same wall box as that 110VAC outlet?
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Kilroy was here
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netboy34 @ 22nd Sep 10:58PM:
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its a leviton split box, I didn't have the 4 spot quickport plate yet.
one of these guys
»www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1vZ1···Id=10053
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Killa200 @ 23rd Sep 09:28AM:
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as a low voltage contractor i congratulate and thank you for that step. God i hate when the homeowner / sparky / tech / whoever lumps them in undivided boxes.
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jeffmoss26 @ 23rd Sep 10:12PM:
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Why the separate data and uverse jacks?
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mediacoretex @ 23rd Sep 11:17PM:
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I'm guessing the switch might not support jumbo frames...
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netboy34 @ 23rd Sep 11:34PM:
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the linksys on the left supposedly does but the tv's still freeze, so i got the netgear that is known to handle the traffic and it also makes a nice separation of data traffic and tv traffic so the server isnt battling for bandwidth since the gateway will filter out the tv info from the data switch port.�
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dumbfound @ 25th Sep 03:26PM:
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Phone is cat5e...
Are you using VOIP? unless there is a way to convert regular telephone lines to cat5e/6 lines?
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netboy34 @ 25th Sep 03:39PM:
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No, as U-voice isn't in GA yet, but even still, the defacto standard in new construction around here is cat5 for everything. With the right jacks (Leviton makes some) you can use a cat5 jack for phone or network as long as it is connected the correct way. "Most" homes only get 2 lines, so it would use the inner pairs, which in this case would be the blue and green pairs, but with cat5 in place, you can go up to 4 lines if needed.
The phone patch part takes care of this for me, and helps if I need to make one of the phone ports network for some reason, all I have to do is unplug the patch to the phone board, and plug a patch into a switch.
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netboy34 @ 27th Sep 05:10PM:
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I finally got the 4 port quickport inserts this week, (HD and Lowes only carry the 2-port decoras) so here is a couple pictures to clear up the split box setup at the gateway and what you see in some of the rooms.
Gateway split front |
Gateway Split Back |
Room Split |
anon @ 5th Oct 07:03PM:
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im no exzpert but why would u put data next to 110 outlet.. i swore the rule was 2ft apart from any electrical source
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netboy34 @ 5th Oct 11:24PM:
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If they are running horizontal to each other yes. They can be near at 90 degree angles, or for a short distance (in my case all of 3 inches) and in split boxes.
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CS5W_RA @ 6th Oct 02:58PM:
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thx for clearing that up for me... i want to do similar to my parents house but the house so old that its easier to run it underneath than tearing out the drywall
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