nice, that's awesome! I'm intimidated by the prospect of doing it but there's no reason I cant, just a matter of facing the challenge (and planning in detail). Are there any good guides/vids/etc. you followed or otherwise found useful? No worries if not, just figured I might as well ask!
There's nothing I followed. Basically, the house already had CAT5e in certain places through conduit, in others only conduit, etc. If there's a conduit, and if there's a any cable inside whatsoever (even electric) you can use the existing cable to pull on the new one - which I did for CAT6A (no reason to run anything else, but that's a different topic) and I also tied duplex LC UPC to it so both were pulled together. Sometimes there were either bends or whatever in the walls which lubricant solved. Only advice there is is to get a good electrician and either assist him doing that or have him do it. Single person cannot do it. Aftewards run tests on the cables. Tester you need are like 10-20 bucks each for UTP and for fiber (VFL). Terminate all to a a keystone onto a wall mounted plate and that's it. I have those plates that fit multiple things in it so it's a single plate with all connectors. My only "regret" is that all the conduits I have in house from various rooms all lead to a crawl space in attic. It's fine, and it's big enough to fit a small rack, but I'd prefer to have it all terminate to a basement for full rack and larger ventilation. I couldn't run everything from rooms to the attic and then through a single conduit to the basement, just no option to do that as such. I ran both UTP and fiber because UTP gives me POE and no need to wrangle transceivers.
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nice, that's awesome! I'm intimidated by the prospect of doing it but there's no reason I cant, just a matter of facing the challenge (and planning in detail). Are there any good guides/vids/etc. you followed or otherwise found useful? No worries if not, just figured I might as well ask!
There's nothing I followed. Basically, the house already had CAT5e in certain places through conduit, in others only conduit, etc. If there's a conduit, and if there's a any cable inside whatsoever (even electric) you can use the existing cable to pull on the new one - which I did for CAT6A (no reason to run anything else, but that's a different topic) and I also tied duplex LC UPC to it so both were pulled together. Sometimes there were either bends or whatever in the walls which lubricant solved. Only advice there is is to get a good electrician and either assist him doing that or have him do it. Single person cannot do it. Aftewards run tests on the cables. Tester you need are like 10-20 bucks each for UTP and for fiber (VFL). Terminate all to a a keystone onto a wall mounted plate and that's it. I have those plates that fit multiple things in it so it's a single plate with all connectors. My only "regret" is that all the conduits I have in house from various rooms all lead to a crawl space in attic. It's fine, and it's big enough to fit a small rack, but I'd prefer to have it all terminate to a basement for full rack and larger ventilation. I couldn't run everything from rooms to the attic and then through a single conduit to the basement, just no option to do that as such. I ran both UTP and fiber because UTP gives me POE and no need to wrangle transceivers.