Ethernet cable wiring

Wolke

Hi,

I need to run some ethernet cable from our UPC router in living room to an upstairs room that will be used for as an office.
I am looking for some advice/input on which type of cabling to use i.e:
- Cat5e/6/6a ?
- utp/s-ftp/u-ftp ?

The distance needed is approx 50 mtrs.

The speed of our broadband is 120 MB/s

Thanks in advance.

ED E

5e is plenty for GigE, you can jump to 6a if you feel like future proofing. 5e is UTP, 6A is bigger and stiffer and comes in variants but UTP is fine for residential.

Wolke

Great - thanks for the advice.

Can you recommend and Irish website to buy from.
I have looked at Cable monkey, Elara and Screwfix Ireland.

Some up the brands such as Philex don't have very favourable reviews.

Cable monkey seems good so far, what do you think ?

65535

If you are in Dublin you could just go to Woodcom (Wood Communications) long mile road, or Dwyers electrical in forge hill in Cork

Wolke

65535 wrote: »

If you are in Dublin you could just go to Woodcom (Wood Communications) long mile road, or Dwyers electrical in forge hill in Cork

Unfortunately I'm in galway - there is Maplin but Cat5e runs about €120 for 100 mtrs in there

hju6

Wolke wrote: »

Unfortunately I'm in galway - there is Maplin but Cat5e runs about €120 for 100 mtrs in there

Try here online
http://www.freetv.ie/networking/cabling/cat5.html

65535

No not maplin - try an electrical wholesaler - Kellehers electrical or Flahertys

The_Rev

+1 for freetv.ie (formarly tvtrade.ie)
I've purchased from them before... cheap shipping (think it was 5euro)

If you're getting bare cable, you'll also need some rj45 crimps and a crimp tool.
It's easy enough to crimp on the connectors once you've practiced one or two...

cable:
http://www.freetv.ie/networking/cabling/cat5.html

connectors:
http://www.freetv.ie/networking/rj45/cat5-connectors.html

crimp tool:
http://www.freetv.ie/networking/rj45-tools/crimp.html

You may also want to wire into a wall plate/socket outlet instead of leaving a bare cable/crimp coming out of the wall... in this case get this too and mount a socketbox onto the wall:

faceplates & keystone jack:
http://www.freetv.ie/networking/face-plates/cat5-wall-plates.html

nb: you'll want a deep socketbox to mount the faceplates onto, give yourself plenty of room for cables.

The_Rev

oh... if you don't fancy all the wiring and what goes with it, you could always use one of these:
http://www.freetv.ie/homeplug.html
You will be limited to the 100mbps though, but tbh, for your internet connection this will be ideal... and it looks like it comes with 3 port switch built in so you can plug 3 computers straight into it...