From my earlier testing, homeplug connection speed are bad when the distance go longer, and more equipment are sharing the same live wires. Worse if your neighbor using another homeplug (on the same live wires). Sometime can even drop to 10Mbps. I also encounter putting two cheap LED driver, and the homeplug speed became unstable.

Maybe newer homeplug have improvement over the noise.

For small throughput maybe 10Mbps or less, wireless are good, but if want to run few high throughput connection say few Media player playing from a NAS storage wireless may not be good.

If house are under renovation, is good to wired it. I have 11 LAN points, 5 for LAN, remaining for future CCTV.

Not about walking is about storing movies and images. I have like 50gigs of kids cartoons, and many full HD good movies.

50 only kids stuff, hd are more, few hundred gigs, and My nas not only putting videos and images. I use it as iscsi to run VMware, and is operate with raid in case disk failure. So far synology servings me well.

Now I also do backup over the cloud. Usd60 per year can get few T.Bytes. cheaper than buying h.disk

Is useless because you won't get cat6 performance.

You can drop what you want, but it also show the knowledge of network you have.

I managed and design network for many years, I know what I am writing. Cat6 performance can go up to 10gpbs, but that need to be operate at higher frequency. Cat6 uses thicker copper better insulation which helps reducing near end cross talk - the CAT6 jacks are made to take this into accounts. If you use Cat6 cabling, but only Cat5E connectors on each end, the network is only going to be rated to Cat5E

All Cat6 cabling need to run a series of noise testing before it get certified as Cat6 enviroment. Putting Cat6 cabling and all the socket with cat6 is not certified if its not tested. Running at 10Gbps will generate lots of CRC error if noise level are high and create worse network compare to CAT5e. The only true CAT6 environment i see as of now is only in Data center running and maintaining 10Gbps, not even in big corporate.

If a home owner want to have so call CAT 6 cabling, but only running on 1Gbps, my advice go with CAT5e good quality cables like KRONE or AMP which both under the same umbrella.

If worry Cat5e get outdated, better lay entire house with single mode fiber. Can go up to 100Gbps.

Let get it clear, my definition of socket is this (http://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-photo-computer-network-socket-image3101095) some called it keystone.

Socket/keystone have a different. Cat6 certified socket will have low noise operating at 250mhz, and for some can afford others can even go up to 500mhz. Even the patch cords, and patch panel need to be tested at 250Mhz and above to get CAT6 certified.



Cat6 is made for high frequency and 10Gbps with backward compatible. Cat5e is not nearing to its lifespan, Cat5e is been proven to run from 10mbps up to 1Gbps without any issue, even some old office with Cat5e cabling by just replacing Switch + new notebook all running at 1Gbps without any error.

Without proper noise testing on CAT6, is as good as using only CAT5e

My reply is very clear, can use cat5e socket but can't get cat6 performance.

Is the blue color network cables? The Network cables need minimal 6" apart from power points. Hope internally they gab minimal 6" apart.

Can't do much already. Cables already in the walls. Just use it, if have lots if packet drop you will have to configure to lower speed, and reduce to half duplex. Usually good network switch will do auto switching when performance or high CRC detected.

The tester only good for connection testing, but for the cable photo you attached is Cat 6, need noise tester that cost few Grand. Sometime the contractor may cut bit of the cables and the basic connector will still detect normal, but with the noise tester it will failed. My last installation of CAT 6 environment the contractor need to redo about 10 points.

using homeplug with 3 phases is only possible if the pair of homeplug are on the same phase / live wires.

Not all keystone come with the cover, with or without cover is ok. The installer should clean the edge of the exposed wires, he didn't do a nice finishing job, it won't affect the normal LAN speed 100Mhz (100Mbps / 1Gbps), but going higher which I doubt you will going to do it (10Gbps) may generate noise.

Don't expect the normal cable guys to have a noise tester.

Can always go to Pasar road to find.

Not all keystone compatible with the faceplate, better bring sample before you buy.