tips for cat5 install in domestic

[Lee321]

quite chunky compared telephone cable for skirting clipping so after some install tips what have you used etc

Guinness

 

[oldtimespark]

pvc trunking

 

[Badger]

i used metal caping in the dining room and chased the cat 5 into the dining wall, stappled it to the skirting board in the hidey hole behind the stairs where there are 2 cd / storage cupboard hiding the network point cable out of sight, and its studded walls upstairs in my bedroom and in the study room so just ran it in open space in the stud work, and used faster fix boxes to mount the plates to to connect the pocs etc and laptops.

 

[Lee321]

hmmm i bet thats not 8mm OD ?

 

[Lee321]

staple gun fit over cat 5?

 

[oldtimespark]

Hi.Lee

 

[ianmacd]

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[ianmacd]

Hi.Lee

 

[Lee321]

nice one ian. i knew all of what OTS posted in the link and the better staple guns have impact adjust to try and set nail depth thmbsupsmilie

 

[Badger]

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[Lee321]

yeah it ****ed it :^O

ray :^O opcorn :run

 

[Rod Williamson]

Think about trunking mate and/or utilising voids. Cat 5 hates clips,staples etc. Your test results will prove this!

 

[ianmacd]

Think about trunking mate and/or utilising voids. Cat 5 hates clips,staples etc. Your test results will prove this!

That depends on how you test it. A qualification tester is unlikly to show any issues with it but a network analyser may well flag it although, at domestic or even office use (i.e. not backbone of an ISP etc..) its unlikly to be of any interferance to the cable.

 

[Lee321]

That depends on how you test it. A qualification tester is unlikly to show any issues with it but a network analyser may well flag it although, at domestic or even office use (i.e. not backbone of an ISP etc..) its unlikly to be of any interferance to the cable.

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