Cat6 or Wireless

[administrator]

Hi All,

Getting a lot of work done on Admin towers at the minute with a new extension and the whole house being rewired. Should I go wireless and not worry about it or should I look to get Cat6 stuck in every room while the floorboards etc are up?

Cheers,

Admin

[DaveB]

Hi All,

Getting a lot of work done on Admin towers at the minute with a new extension and the whole house being rewired. Should I go wireless and not worry about it or should I look to get Cat6 stuck in every room while the floorboards etc are up?

Cheers,

Admin

Given the opportunity I'd run the wires in and have wireless AP's in each room wired back to the main router to guarentee signal. Also means you can plug in kit without wireless capability or where it's not always reliable such as printers etc.

[TheFaQQer]

Given the opportunity I'd run the wires in and have wireless AP's in each room wired back to the main router to guarentee signal. Also means you can plug in kit without wireless capability or where it's not always reliable such as printers etc.

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For the cost / benefit, I'd have a wired socket in every room I could stick one in.

[SimonMac]

I am slowly moving towards hard wire other WiFi, I am using Homeplugs but if I had the opportunity to add CAT6 then I would do that

[hyperD]

I got Cat 6 throughout the household. That way I can charge guests for premium internet access!

Serious point being they can have 120Mbps (soon to be 150Mbps) internet access.

[hyperD]

Cost me £3k in 2002 (all through business). YMMV.

[craig1]

A few years ago I rewired a good bit of my house with Cat6 cabling while the wife was away for the weekend at a spa. Worth every bit of the hassle. The only thing that's annoying is that I was lazy and didn't want to run a cable to behind the bedroom telly, maybe next time I can be bothered and the wife's away.

[vetran]

2 sockets minimum each room. Plenty behind the telly and computer.

Cost is peanuts, with POE becoming common it makes sense as the IOT marches on. Saves on lots of power adapters. Lots of things can be pushed over cat5/6 to save cables across the room.

Soon we will have hundreds of devices in the house talking to each other, wireless just doesn't cope well with lots of misbehaving clients.

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[administrator]

Cheers all - I thought cat65 might be the way to go... £3k is way out of my league though!! I know cable isn't cheap but am hoping I can do a lot of it myself while the electrician is doing his thing. Never done anything like that before - is it daft of me to attempt this myself? As far as I can see I would need a wall plate for each connection, a reel of cable (100m for £50), a wall plate or two for each room and all the cables leading back to the location where I intend to have the master socket...

Feck me - some 10m cables here cheaper than the cost per metre for cable:
Xenta Cat6 Snagless UTP Patch Cable (Red) 10m | Ebuyer.com

Might grab 10 of those as should be able to do all the downstairs and half of up with those ones...

[d000hg]

It shouldn't cost anything like £3k if you're having stuff done... anywhere he is laying cables he can add a network cable at the same time in moments.