Posted: 1/1/2017 1:58:04 PM EDT
|
I pulled Cat 5 cable from a central point near my cables modem to all of the rooms in my house but never terminated anything. The wires are in the same wall where my Cable modem is located. I have been thinking about ditching cable and using an internet based program such as sling TV. If I make the switch I would like to use the cables instead of going wireless.
Since the cables are all centrally located in one wall, is there a small ( 10-12 port max minimum 6) recessed data cabinet that can install in my wall that comes with patch panels or ports already installed? I can easily get power to it also, so If there is space I can move my coax cable and modem and locate them in the box. |
|
Quoted:
Terminate your runs to a 110 patch bay and then use standard patch cables to connect your network equipment. Example: http://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/400284464297-0-1/s-l1000.jpg I was going to suggest the exact same thing. |
|
Quoted:
Correct, you will. Skip Levitons switch and go with something that provides gig speeds and preferably PoE. Quoted:
Quoted:
Will I need to use a switch to bring service to the individual runs? Correct, you will. Skip Levitons switch and go with something that provides gig speeds and preferably PoE. I've been looking at Ubiquiti for those roles OP... |
|
Quoted:
Correct, you will. Skip Levitons switch and go with something that provides gig speeds and preferably PoE. Quoted:
Quoted:
Will I need to use a switch to bring service to the individual runs? Correct, you will. Skip Levitons switch and go with something that provides gig speeds and preferably PoE. Without knowing more about his setup and use I wouldn't necessarily agree with either of those. |
|
A very good option so is a used Cisco off eBay or HP Procurve. |
|
Quoted:
A very good option so is a used Cisco off eBay or HP Procurve. I wouldn't fill the ports on HP gear with my feces. I did consider using eBay'd Cisco hardware because it's cheap and I can always keep a couple spares around and I've got open access to all the code versions. I like Ubiquiti though because it gives me a single pane of glass if I want to actually do any monitoring/tweaking of the home network and getting nice new gear, rather than rolling the dice on refurb. |
|
Quoted:
It's Cat 5. It was run about 10 years ago. Is that still usable? I want to use it for TV service to each room. Maybe Sling TV. Quoted:
Quoted:
When you say "Cat 5," did you run actual old Cat 5, or did you run Cat 5e and drop the "e" when typing your post? It's Cat 5. It was run about 10 years ago. Is that still usable? I want to use it for TV service to each room. Maybe Sling TV. If the cable hasn't been compromised, it'll still transfer data. The old Cat 5 standard maxes out at ~100 Mbps which is more than sufficient for most things, but is becoming a "legacy" standard at this point. Cat 5e can handle 1 Gbps. If that cable can be easily "pulled" with new cable, it might be worth the effort to do that before you terminate connections. If that cable can't be easily pulled, the best advice I can give is that it's probably not worth springing for a new switch with 1 Gbps access ports. If your internet service is less than 100 Mbps and will be for a long time, you can put just about any older 100 Mbps switch in there and cable it however. If your internet service is greater than 100 Mbps, your next best option is to find a switch similar to a Cisco 2960 that has 100 Mbps access ports and 1 Gbps uplink ports. You can connect your individual rooms to the access ports and use a Cat 5e or Cat 6 cable to run a connection between an uplink port on the switch and your router. A key concept to understand here is that a connection speed will always be limited by the slowest link. If you get a 1 Gbps internet service like Google Fiber, anything using that old Cat 5 cable will still be limited to ~100 Mbps. If you connect the switch to the router using Cat 5 and/or an interface limited to 100 Mbps, all devices "south" of that switch will be congested to sharing that one 100 Mbps pipe to get out to the internet. If you actually want 1 Gbps service all the way down, you would need to run Cat 5e or Cat 6 cable to each room and use a 1 Gbps switch. |
|
Quoted:
If the cable hasn't been compromised, it'll still transfer data. The old Cat 5 standard maxes out at ~100 Mbps which is more than sufficient for most things, but is becoming a "legacy" standard at this point. Cat 5e can handle 1 Gbps. If that cable can be easily "pulled" with new cable, it might be worth the effort to do that before you terminate connections. If that cable can't be easily pulled, the best advice I can give is that it's probably not worth springing for a new switch with 1 Gbps access ports. If your internet service is less than 100 Mbps and will be for a long time, you can put just about any older 100 Mbps switch in there and cable it however. If your internet service is greater than 100 Mbps, your next best option is to find a switch similar to a Cisco 2960 that has 100 Mbps access ports and 1 Gbps uplink ports. You can connect your individual rooms to the access ports and use a Cat 5e or Cat 6 cable to run a connection between an uplink port on the switch and your router. A key concept to understand here is that a connection speed will always be limited by the slowest link. If you get a 1 Gbps internet service like Google Fiber, anything using that old Cat 5 cable will still be limited to ~100 Mbps. If you connect the switch to the router using Cat 5 and/or an interface limited to 100 Mbps, all devices "south" of that switch will be congested to sharing that one 100 Mbps pipe to get out to the internet. If you actually want 1 Gbps service all the way down, you would need to run Cat 5e or Cat 6 cable to each room and use a 1 Gbps switch. Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
When you say "Cat 5," did you run actual old Cat 5, or did you run Cat 5e and drop the "e" when typing your post? It's Cat 5. It was run about 10 years ago. Is that still usable? I want to use it for TV service to each room. Maybe Sling TV. If the cable hasn't been compromised, it'll still transfer data. The old Cat 5 standard maxes out at ~100 Mbps which is more than sufficient for most things, but is becoming a "legacy" standard at this point. Cat 5e can handle 1 Gbps. If that cable can be easily "pulled" with new cable, it might be worth the effort to do that before you terminate connections. If that cable can't be easily pulled, the best advice I can give is that it's probably not worth springing for a new switch with 1 Gbps access ports. If your internet service is less than 100 Mbps and will be for a long time, you can put just about any older 100 Mbps switch in there and cable it however. If your internet service is greater than 100 Mbps, your next best option is to find a switch similar to a Cisco 2960 that has 100 Mbps access ports and 1 Gbps uplink ports. You can connect your individual rooms to the access ports and use a Cat 5e or Cat 6 cable to run a connection between an uplink port on the switch and your router. A key concept to understand here is that a connection speed will always be limited by the slowest link. If you get a 1 Gbps internet service like Google Fiber, anything using that old Cat 5 cable will still be limited to ~100 Mbps. If you connect the switch to the router using Cat 5 and/or an interface limited to 100 Mbps, all devices "south" of that switch will be congested to sharing that one 100 Mbps pipe to get out to the internet. If you actually want 1 Gbps service all the way down, you would need to run Cat 5e or Cat 6 cable to each room and use a 1 Gbps switch. There isn't a hard and fast "Cat5 will not support gigabit" rule. The fact is that it wasn't designed to support it and higher categories have better support for gigabit speeds. That Cat5 was designed to run 100mbps over a distance of 100 meters. Few houses have that long of runs so if you only have a fifty foot run of Cat5 it will probably support gigabit as long as it wasn't installed too poorly since there just isn't enough opportunity for crosstalk to become an issue in the length of the run. |
|
Quoted:
There isn't a hard and fast "Cat5 will not support gigabit" rule. The fact is that it wasn't designed to support it and higher categories have better support for gigabit speeds. That Cat5 was designed to run 100mbps over a distance of 100 meters. Few houses have that long of runs so if you only have a fifty foot run of Cat5 it will probably support gigabit as long as it wasn't installed too poorly since there just isn't enough opportunity for crosstalk to become an issue in the length of the run. Maybe this is anecdotal, but... Last year, I bought a house, and there was some UTP run between the office and a good spot in the basement by the previous owner. I set up a gig switch in the basement, set up my PC, and launched a speed test. I was maxing out right at 100 Mbps. I looked at some exposed cable in the basement, and saw that it was Cat 5. I moved my PC down stairs, tested again, and I got just above the 300 Mbps I'm paying my ISP for. I replaced the cabling in the house with Cat 6, put my PC back in the office, and successfully reached 300 Mbps. |