Cat5 Home Wiring

Although wireless is simpler for a lot of people due to multimedia sharing bandwidth on my home network and my slight paranoia about wireless security i really wanted to use a hard wired solution for home networkinghaving a wired network allow. Heres a step by step guide to wiring your home with cat5e or cat6 ethernet cable. Network cables like cat5 cat5e and cat6 are widely used in our network.
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There are two main options as shown in the schematic above.

Cat5 home wiring. In very simple terms so not 100 accurate but close enough cat5 is designed to operate at fast ethernet speeds ie. It has better performance than cat5 and lower price. This is the option shown in most home wiring videos on youtube. You can bring the cables from all wall sockets to a central location.

Cat5e cables can support 1000base t transmission up to 100 m which meet the requirements of various applications in our home office and data center. How to wire your house with cat 5 or 6 for ethernet networking. Most of the new computers and devices allow for gigabit ethernet speeds which are far faster than wireless. If youre not sure of the difference between the two check out this post step 1.

The speeds of hard wiring your home for the internet are hard to match. Cat5e is an enhanced version of cat5 and is designed to operate up to gigabit speeds so 1000mbs. The other option is to use several switches perhaps one per floor and wire those switches back to a central location. They can support different transmission distances and applications.

By hardwiring the home with ethernet you eliminate the chance of wireless interference from neighboring wireless routers. Various ethernet network cables are being invented.