Need help re: wiring the house

[Paddy]

Cheers lads! Tha lot came to £190!!! at RS. About £90 was for the faceplates.

Again, can i use cat 6 cable with cat 5 faceplates, nics and routers? does the category refer to the sheilding/construction of the cable rather than the number of wires?

[Mehen]

It's all RJ45, so yes.

[Fat Tone]

Originally posted by az
Addendum: It says "[...] exclusively for the Higher Education and Research Institutes throughout the UK." Don't know if you can buy there, or what the difference is to Farnell InOne - I'm guessing mostly prices.

AZ

I spotted that, and that's how I came across them, but I've ordered personally without mentioning my affiliation before.
If you want to use them Paddy, and it's an issue, I could get it for you.

[Kurt]

Originally posted by Paddy
Cheers lads! Tha lot came to £190!!! at RS. About £90 was for the faceplates.

Again, can i use cat 6 cable with cat 5 faceplates, nics and routers? does the category refer to the sheilding/construction of the cable rather than the number of wires?

What cable do you plan on using for the Sat dish?

[Paddy]

Plain coax? What shoudl i use?

[az]

Well shielded, thick Coax

AZ

[Paddy]

Cool!

Those faceplates seem pricey though. £40ish for 4 two port face plates, and another £40ish for 2 four port faceplates. All in bright white plastic!

[KvHagedorn]

RG6 Quadsheilded, Rated at 3GHz is what we normally use for all video, including satellite. You will need special ends for it.

[Paddy]

I have seen cheap cabinets for rackmounting kit (insert geek-eyes lit up )

Now, I was planning to have the server in the garage, but there is ample room in my 'patch' cupboard.... are rack mountable motherboards cheap??? The server mono is a asus a7m266-d (and I'd rather keep it)

[Paddy]

Another Question!

My ADSL modem router is a four port Netgear DG814. I also have a Netgear FE108 hub.

I play to use the uplink port on the hub to connect it to the router allowing 10 possible connecitons. Will this work? There is no uplink port on the router....

I can't see why it would work.. however I will ensure that the priority traffic is sent through the router...

[Fat Tone]

The uplink port on the hub may need a x-over cable, or may be configurable for straight/x-over. Most ports these days are autosensing. Just plug the hub into any of the lan connections of the router.

[Paddy]

Cool! I've bought the cables, bits & bobs

I was thinking about buying a cheap rack cabinet, but I think I am gonna custom build one... it's a funny shape hole so I wont bw able to find anything to fit it exactly...

I have bought a patch panel, so i'll need to make an enclosure for it. Presumably they are a standard width?

[Wombat]

Maybe "a" standard. There are multiple widths for rack mounts.

[Paddy]

hmm... I wonder how wide my 16port patch panel is gonna be... it doesn't really matter, it will just force me to mount it on one wall rather than an other.

This is gonna be a cool project

I am gonna get my electrician mate to suggest how to install the cable.

The only thing that I am short of is about 20M of RG6 Coax. I dont need it now, but It will be easier to install it at the same time.

[Umfriend]

With all them PC's you got there Paddy, you might want to take a look at http://forums.murc.ws/showt...&threadid=50143