activemind
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Bought a house couple of months back and it doesn't have any network cables (house built in 1985 so not surprised).
I am in the process of scoping out how to lay cat6 wires.
I am planning to start with the first floor (this is a 2 story house), so runs will be through the crawl space. I dont think there is any issue at the termination points in my office, the family room and the living room.
I want to put the home run box in the garage but talking to one of the local guys here, he discouraged me. He suggested mounting somewhere on the inside wall, not the perimeter wall.
Now at the home run, how am I going to get it past the foundation into the garage ? Is there enough space somewhere that I can take the wires out to the garage from the crawl space! Do I have to go "up" and then across into the garage?
You can tell that I have never done this before but I am willing to learn!
Another issue that I am trying to figure out is that I want to mount the can flush with the wall.
I saw it in (Structured Panel to A/V Rack Connections) thread and really liked it. (sorry, new member, cant post links just yet!)
The question I have is that if its mounted flush, and I want to have a server in the garage somewhere, how do I connect it directly to the patch panel? The panel will have a door, so how do I connect wires if I want to keep the door closed ? Do I create holes in the side for local (within the garage) cat6 cables?
I will try to click some pics tonite when I get home just to get another pair(s) of eyes looking at the whole plan before I start tearing down the sheet rock!
Have spent hours reading on this forum past couple of months. I am AMAZED at the amount of information in here and all the knowledgeable member here!
Thanks in advance!
I am in the process of scoping out how to lay cat6 wires.
I am planning to start with the first floor (this is a 2 story house), so runs will be through the crawl space. I dont think there is any issue at the termination points in my office, the family room and the living room.
I want to put the home run box in the garage but talking to one of the local guys here, he discouraged me. He suggested mounting somewhere on the inside wall, not the perimeter wall.
Now at the home run, how am I going to get it past the foundation into the garage ? Is there enough space somewhere that I can take the wires out to the garage from the crawl space! Do I have to go "up" and then across into the garage?
You can tell that I have never done this before but I am willing to learn!
Another issue that I am trying to figure out is that I want to mount the can flush with the wall.
I saw it in (Structured Panel to A/V Rack Connections) thread and really liked it. (sorry, new member, cant post links just yet!)
The question I have is that if its mounted flush, and I want to have a server in the garage somewhere, how do I connect it directly to the patch panel? The panel will have a door, so how do I connect wires if I want to keep the door closed ? Do I create holes in the side for local (within the garage) cat6 cables?
I will try to click some pics tonite when I get home just to get another pair(s) of eyes looking at the whole plan before I start tearing down the sheet rock!
Have spent hours reading on this forum past couple of months. I am AMAZED at the amount of information in here and all the knowledgeable member here!
Thanks in advance!