Been wired my home for 10yrs.

But wifi is increasingly necessary in home. Home automation, phnoe and pad is on wifi without any choice.

Those high speed data transfer like AV and PC is compulsory wired. Even have wifi option.

Alright, thanks for sharing


Maybe its time to upgrade to Cat 6?

RM4500 is that too expensive?
Or just a starter pack?

Nice for DIY level. Do you mind sharing how do you route the cables to your AV and PC? A picture maybe? Maybe someone browsing for "Home Renovations and Interior Design" can benefit?


CAT5 is okay bro! The important thing is stability. I'd rather connect my PC/media box using CAT5 than AC WiFi.


What do you mean by starter pack? The cost is RM250 per port. That is the price around here in Penang. With 16 (sixteen) ports plus I asked them to do some additional works as mentioned in my previous posts, including finishing and painting.

Of course you can ask electrical wireman to do these (with cheaper price), but you have to be there to make sure the cable route is done properly. I've seen wireman that put CAT5e cable in the same conduit as the electrical wire. You don't want this. Unfortunately, I don't have time to be here at my house (during renovation). I just brief my wireman the requirement, the location of the ports, switch, and remind them the rules (bending, conduit etc.). I asked them to contact me before they cover the hacked wall because I want to make sure they properly follow the rules. I even warned them that if they do not comply with the rules, I would ask them to re-do. I'm very satisfy with the quality of the job including finishing (again, this is thread about "Home Renovations and Interior Design" and finishing is important, maybe at least for me).

My house is a normal 2 storey house. The Unifi incoming line is from the back, ground floor room. The room is a proper bedroom (with bed) and the farthest wall plate is not only at my ground floor living room, but the master bedroom at the second floor on the other end of my house. You can imagine how many walls they have to hack and plan properly the route especially at the stairs. I believe if you have single storey house, it would be cheaper.

I really hope all my posts here can be useful for Home Renovations and Interior Design.

@hayenadeblue

That was a great explain, thanks
My future home will have gaming room with semi office, cause I'm a designer.

Are there official routing rules? I only know:
1. cannot run too close to power cables in parallel. How close I'm not sure.
2. Never bend smaller than the bend radius of the cable. This is especially critical for solid copper cables because it might break.
3. When terminating, don't untwist the pairs more than necessary.

Any other rules? We can compile them as a guide.

Cable run in the trunking along the bottom wall. Drill the hole from the store room out to the hall.

At the AV cabinet, all the cable is behind. There is no wall LAN socket termination. All direct cable connect to the player. Player is place inside the cabinet. No wall socket or any cable visible ontop.

My PC at upper floor. So drill a hole on the ceiling and pass the cable to top floor room. Direct connect to PC.

Cost me few hundred for the trunking, drill bit, foam, pipe and the LAN cable.

I am planning to network my new home which is currently still under construction. I contacted the electrical sub contractor and they are quoting me RM200 per cable (doesn't matter long or short) for Cat6. Cable brand is Legrand (haven't heard of it). I'm thinking if I were to do it myself after the key submission would it be cheaper?

I'm expected to have 10 Cat6 points.

Pay for it. You don't want the mess after finish the work.

And it is stupid to chisel the wall again to conceal the cable after construction.

If you follow IEEE standard,
1) power run & network cable run in parallel should be 1 metre apart
2) bending radius at min 1 inch preferrably 2 inch
3) when terminating, untwisted should be limited within the plug

Anyone wanted to do cabling and wifi , cctv with ip camera can let me know

I do setup for high end state of the art setup

:-)

How much is the server rack?

Hi All,

Anyone can share the colour layout for cat6 cable?
i have a network cable lay between my two living hall on second and ground
floor...tested ok with all the light correctly with tester...
my router at 2nd floor and a cable pull to living hall downstair for tvbox usage
but when i plug into laptop it shows unidentified network..cant even get an ip...
anyone know what's wrong?


current colour code is (both ends)
1white-orange
2orange
3white-blue
4blue
5white green
6green
7white brown
8brown

This post has been edited by sunami: Apr 26 2019, 01:10 AM

White-orange
Orange
White-green
Blue
White-blue
Green
White-brown
Brown

Malaysia usually use 568-B, make sure both end is 568-B

https://www.comms-express.com/infozone/article/cat5e-wiring/

ozak, i thought Maxis broadband uses private IP. How do you do ddns? remote from outside?

Just call Maxis to request public IP, they will remote access to ur router to do it for u. Ur username will changed to xxx@public.maxis.com

thanks alot..i try again to9

Just FYI:
Technically only need 2 pairs, pair 1 (1 &2) for transmitting and pair 2 (3 & 6) for receiving.
When u terminated ur cable ends, u did pair 2 wrongly, that's why no proper signal coming through.

Private IP?

Thought Dynamic or stastic IP ?

Anyway, I use synology provided ddns. Very easy setup and nothing change to Maxis bb.