Don't think they is standard pricing. You need to ask them before start. For my case, he supply conduit and installation. I supply cables for CCTV, Cat5e, and twin flat, face plates, and terminate myself.

Think I pay him good price, I paid 70 per point, it was not his request, but i just pay him this rate as he give me some discount and did not include many extra stuff I add on later stage.

DIY lo, is not that hard. And buy a patch panel for the central cable area.

Your CCTV? you did not put LAN cable?

If only 4, just buy two face place with 2 Cat5e jacket per face plate ok already.

Use blade/ cutter can be punch down tool. Don't need special tools.

You need to understand bottleneck is not on the LAN, could be your devices and disk transfer rate. Even you get a 7200rpm drive, your average transfer maybe is around 50 to 80MB/sec, if you have more fragment files, difference files system, device design and other smaller files the transfer rate will be varied.

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Added on July 26, 2012, 10:31 amA good throughput switch can sustain much higher transfer too. That is the difference between a cheap and high end switch.

This post has been edited by weikee: Jul 26 2012, 10:31 AM

Check your HD spec, could be your HD transfer rate.

Yes, don't need Amp, but at least a good quality Taiwan cables or reliable brand. I am phobia with China cables after so many experience with it.

Cat 5e can go up to 1Gbps without problem. Cat6 can go up to 10Gbps that is if your cables are properly test.

Yes

A real Cat 6 cabling standard need DB testing for optimum performence. If the test failed / have too much crc error running cat 6 at the highest rate, it will fall back to the lower rate and that is already similar to CAT5e.

Cat 5e is good up to 1Gbps, and Cat 6 can go up to 10Gbps if it pass all the testing.

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Added on September 12, 2012, 3:31 pmHDMI extender need 2 LAN cable. Cat 5e or 6 does not matter.

This post has been edited by weikee: Sep 12 2012, 03:31 PM

1Gbps is good for sometime. If you want future proof, pull fiber entire house. Can go up to 100Gbps.

Everyone are talking about cat6, have anyone every try to boost the cable up to 10Gbps? and see if any CRC error?

Ususally is only 1Gbps, and that is still achiveable in cat5e.

For cat6, get the bendable without the center rubber, it cost almost double, but easy to lay and less problem. Lots of installer don't know how to handle Cat6 with the center rubber, is really a pain to deal with, especially after complete you run the test and fail.

Get fiber sure future proof. Current testing phase is fiber transmitting 1Tbps. Not even have any production servers can process such a huge data speed yet.

You have 2 DECT Phone, is this the analog DECT supply by uniFi? Or VOIP Phone via internet? if is uniFi DECT Phone that is analog phone you can't plug into your ground floor switch.

Your layout are very confusing to me. How is Ground floor and 1st floor connect? Or you plan not to connect them?

For Analog phone cabling is using CAT 3 with RJ11 head/jack, but you can use CAT 5e and use Cat5e faceplate no issue, Cat 5e use RJ45 faceplate and are backwards compatible to RJ11 head.

This post has been edited by weikee: Apr 8 2013, 12:21 AM

If you know how to use VLAN trunking <more advance networking>, you can utilized one network port for HypeTV, and network. But leave it with 2 network ports for your tv area. Anyway is sure not enough and you will eventually need to have small switch there.

For your DECT phone, why do hassle of cable, why not you buy the Twin, some even have Triple DECT set, you have one station, and one sub station. The sub station don't need phone line only power to charge the station.

In network, it must have a termination point, where is your termination points? From what I see, is at your first floor. Is it ready for it? Cosmetic point of view, that area will have many network points.

1 - Can run parallel, mush have some gab.

2 - House usually minimal 6", if you have high current equipments better to have 12" gap. Generally 6" is good enough.

3 - normal white conduit will do. Unless you run under the ground floor with earth/soil You need special cables and conduit.

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

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

2 pair if only 100mbps, at 1Gbps, all 4 pairs are used.