New Build - CAT6 Wiring

chazman88

Christ, looks like you could talk to the moon with that thing, let alone the room next door!

psychopomp1

Ha Ha ha yes unfortunately pretty much all high end tri -band routers will have massive antennas sticking out in every direction. However I'm not too fussed about aesthetics, just how well the router performs. The Linksys EA9500 works brilliantly for me, looks are secondary

Markr123

LOL, not sure my, or anyone’s wife would agree with that statement . Looks rather impressive albeit rather sinister.

tom 2000

A dead spider?

Puntoboy

The downstairs walls are all solid. A single router doesn't work and I have all ready tested the current router/AP setup in the current house which works perfectly for me. Plus the garage is too far away. The Ubiquiti APs works lovely.

Thanks Mark. As mentioned, 50m of fibre cables wouldn't be enough. I'd need at least 2 x 75-100m ones. From my quick look, once you get over a certain distance the price for fibre goes up considerably. Plus the SFP transceivers and that bumps the price a lot. CAT6a just for this run to the garage seems like a better choice as I'm also finding that finding switches with 10GB SFP ports that do not cost the earth is hard. 10GB RJ45 switches seem a lot cheaper.

I'll keep my eyes peeled though, the house is still a few months away at this point.

Puntoboy

Any recommendations for switches?

Requirements:
24 Port150W  PoEAt least 2 (ideally 4) SFP  / Combo / RJ45 Ports 10GB capable over 100mFound this so far. Cisco SG250X-24P 24-Port Layer 3 Smart Managed Gigabit PoE  Switch w/ 2 x 10GbE RJ45/SFP Combo & 2 x 10GbE SFP  Ports (195W) 250 Series

Zigourney

I'm also in a new build and had cat6 installed at first fix. In our development we had the option of having a cat6 network as well as in wall speaker wiring done in conjunction with an AV installation company. Cat6 is must if you intend to do hdmi over ethernet in my opinion. Have a look at my signature for my build if you get some time.

I've also had BT FTTP 300/50 installed recently and surprisingly the wifi coming out of the BT standard issue Smart Hub2 is excellent, I am getting on average about 250mbps on my iphone all around the house on wifi which is plenty for me so I'm holding off installing a ubiquity access point for the time being until they update their access points to wifi6. All my main equipment is wired so there is no rush to do that just yet.

I'm planning to upgrade my Synology NAS to 10gbe soon, so I hope I am able to to get 10gbe link speeds over my existing cat6 network as the distances are quite short (less than 20m from office to rack) if not I will have to run a some additional cabling, but I think it should be ok as 10gbe works over cat6 at less than 50m or so, but we shall see.

The Cisco switch you noted above should be rock solid, just bear in mind placement and fan noise. POE switches usually have small fans in them which are very noisy. I went with a HP 48 port non POE switch because I wanted it silent, even though mine was going to live in a rack that's placed inside a cupboard. Got my cameras on the POE NVR which was noisy, but I modded it with a couple of Noctua fans and its pretty whisper quite now.

Puntoboy

I wish our developers would allow network points to be added at build, but unfortunately they won't.

My network cupboard isn't a problem for noise. I've been running it in the current house for years now with noisey PoE switch, NVR, NAS, UPS etc.

Puntoboy

I like the look of this. Fits the bill. MikroTik

Puntoboy

So things are finally progressing with the house, first fix electrics are now done and they are starting to plaster it to day.

I've had a little good news with the Ethernet cables too. Strangely, the builder puts in two Ethernet cables from the under stairs cupboard (where the Openreach ONT will be) to the living room. One of these cables is CAT5E and the other CAT6. I thought it  was odd they not only put two in, but they are different grades. Either way, I am glad they are there. My office will be next to this cupboard to running an additional cable to my office will be easy.

My network cabinet will be in a cupboard on the first floor. Running cables from this location to the bedrooms and the CCTV cameras on the external walls will be easy as it's all stud walls and I can drop the cables down from the loft. The CCTV cables will run down the cavity walls no problem as well (I've done that in the current house and it works well).

The issue I was going to have was connecting the network cabinet with the under stairs cupboard. Luckily I've been able to get the electrician to run two cables from the cupboard through the floor and stud wall above and info the loft using some CAT6a cable I provided. A bit of a win really as this means I can connect the living room and my office to the network cabinet upstairs with ease.

Once we are in, I can complete the additional cabling I need without too much trouble, which is nice