If this is your first visit, be sure to
check out the FAQ by clicking the
link above. You may have to register
before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages,
select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.
I've got 90 terminated Cat5e points in my house, a further 40 in my detached garage (with room over the top). By the standards of some of the forum members this is just a fraction of what they have but it works for me.
I did decide early on to terminate all of the cables at socket level and at the patch panel so I could test/validate the cabling. Was a fair amount of work at the time but now I know it will work whenever I need to connect/patch in to an outlet.
Flipside - sounds fine. We ran 80 odd CAT5s in our similar sized self build (which was almost 10 years ago now). So your number is by no means over the top.
Remember you don't to terminate them at the wall until you use them.
I have a full 48 port patch for upstairs here, have not done structured downstairs since it will be up for some heavy remodling so have just pulled cables where needed (thats 6 of them, plus one to the garage) - when I go do it I will put fewer in, loads upstairs are not used and would only be used if the room was changed in some way so more can be put in at the time. - could have gotten away with 24 upstairs, but I have nothing other then phone or ethernet thru it. If you are going to be running kat5s or baluns to shove video around the place then you would need more obviously, and the dual cat5 runs needed for hdmi will push the count up even more.
I put 2 dual plates at the bed head, one on each side - am questioning the need for that since I just have a dect charger there now and they are unused. 2 at the TV, when really I will need more if I centralize the video sources, 2 at the desk whereas there needed to be more otherwise I have to have a hub there as well for the computers and printer and stuff.
I'm in a similar position to flipside at the moment - I'm re-wiring my house so I'm trying to work out how much Cat5e I want... though I'm looking at Cat8 stuff too at the moment. What are you thinking of using your network points for flipside? Literally network only, or other stuff too?
Usage wise mostly PC networking but also phones (possible asterix setup in the future) Audio and video but id like to leave myself some wriggle wriggle room
Comment