"Zane H. Healy" wrote:
> Does anyone know of any sources of info on the net anywhere on running a
> network between various rooms in a house? I'm wanting to run a line
> capable of handling 100BaseT from the house out to the garage, and probably
> a couple other rooms in the house.
When we purchased this place six months ago the first things we did were to
build an addition and pull multiple cat five drops everywhere (most rooms
have two, the addtion has sixteen). Everything terminates in the garage;
depending on the application it either plugs into the Merlin, the 100base-TX
switch or the 10base-T external network that connects to the T1. Stuff
in the rooms terminate in keystone jacks; stuff in the garage just sort of
pukes out of a 2" nonmetalitc conduit and are terminated in male RJ45s --
I didn't have any racks at the time and I was already truly sick of punching
down 110 connectors.
You'll need a crimper and RJ45 dies, male RJ45s and cat five cable. If you
want to terminate in jacks you'll also need female RJ45s and a punch-down
tool with a 110 bit. We chose keystones because they (and their clones) are
modular; depending on the application we have anywhere from one to four on
each faceplate. All of this stuff is available mail order, of if you're
close to one, at places like Fry's and HSC.
The ugliest part of the job, IMHO, is pulling the cables. This is a split
level house, so there was the additional fun of figuring out how to get stuff
between floors. Putting jacks into existing walls was easier than I thought,
once I was introduced to remodel/old work boxes.
Best,
Chris
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Received on Wed Oct 27 1999 - 12:55:14 BST