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New construction is being wired up next week and I'm clueless. (alien.top)

submitted 9 months ago by Alpha_Bet-Soup@alien.top to c/homenetworking@selfhosted.forum

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The contractor asked me how I want things wired and I didn't really know.

I was thinking Cat6 ethernet cable with a wall plate in each room. They would all run to the crawl space where I'd have my modem and NAS.

It's a small house. Only 5 ethernet wall plates throughout.

Is there anything I should ask for? I use Plex and IPTV.

Thanks.

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[–] SP3NGL3R@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That is pretty surprising isn't it? I do feel it's more complex than power wires, but not by much. And to be fair I've rewired a few ceiling fan/lights in my day or 2-switch light controls and the wording on those instructions makes ZERO sense. "be sure to attach the hot wire to the hot terminal on the fixture" ... but the fixture has zero indicators to which side is hot/cold and is symmetric to the drawing. However, one plate is copper and the other is silver (in color), so there IS a difference but what is it? stupid engineers. Don't say "hot/cold" or "+/-" for a device that can only be identified as "silver/copper". :p

[–] SamirD@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

It's just more precise work to do it right. Idiot working upstairs at my parent's house untwisted 3" before terminating jacks. And that's why those jacks only get 100Mbs. I'm going to have to re-terminate all of them, and have been saying that for nearly 30 years now! Thank God they didn't terminate all the jacks so I've got a shot at doing those right. The ones that were terminated correctly will iperf 700-900Mbs, so that's pretty good considering there was no gigabit standard when the wire was installed and was the only 400Mhz rated wire on the market that cost us 2x as much, but was a great investment. If 2.5Gb/5Gb runs over it, that will be pretty awesome. We put 2x ethernet and 2x coax in each room and still have areas that were underserved. 2x of each on each wall and ceiling is the only way to go.