Coaxial Cable Wiring Help

joed

Phone only needs cat3 but if you buy one box of cat5e that can be used for both. One cat5e can support 4 phone lines or one network connection.

It would be one coax for tv, one cat3 or 5e for phones and one cat5e for network(computer).

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leungw

I too would suggest running at least two cat5e cables to each room. One for voice and one for network. If more than one network connection is needed, you can always use a switch.

Another thing that I would suggest is to get the biggest panel that you can at the central location (basement in your case). I bought a Leviton 28" initially and was filled up in no time.

psubaron

Wow this is a lot more wiring than I expected. I am not sure I want to run a second wire for data. I may just go wireless to save myself money and work running more wires.

Thank you for all the information.

gregzoll

I use a mix of WiFi & wired in my house. We have three runs in my son's room, with one to a desktop computer, one for the u-verse, and one for the X-box 360. Our bedroom has a roku using wifi, and a u-verse box wired to LAN. Living room is two runs of ethernet. Basement gaming area is two runs of cat-5e. Right now, we are using six cat-5e, wired to a 24 port patch panel, then patch cables going to a 8 port 10/100/1000 Netgear switch, that is patch cabled to the RG for U-Verse.

I bought a 3 foot high a/v rack off of e-bay, two shelves, and the patch panel. With my set up, everything runs to the rack, which sits on a shelf under the stairs. Coax runs, when I had Comcast, all ran to the splitter mounted on a piece of plywood, telephone ran to a punch block. Since I use cell phones in my home, and have U-Verse for tv/Internet, I only need the LAN cabling for my set up.

jimmyfloyd

Just remember one thing: it's easier to run the wires not with the walls open, than to run them later when the walls are closed back up.

psubaron

Good points! So I use cat e5 cables for both internet and phone? How does the cate5 cable connect to the phone wall plates?

gregzoll

---blue wire with the white marking to the red terminal screw (Line 1);
---white wire with blue marking to the green terminal screw (Line 1);
---white wire with orange marking to the black terminal screw (Line 2);
---orange wire with white marking to the yellow terminal screw (Line 2).

A lot of good info at http://www.lanshack.com/wire_phone_jack.aspx

psubaron

Okay I understand how to run the wires now. I just learned something new though. What type of cat5e wire should I run? I am running it from the basement into my walls and to each room of the house. Also there will be romex electrical wires closeby due to where I need to run the cat5e and coaxial.

leungw

A common type for homes is solid non-plenum unshielded twisted pairs.

I believe most would recommend that if you have to run romex near coax/cat5e, try not to run them in parallel. It's better to cross tham at 90 degrees. In reality, I have a few cat5e runs at home that have sections parallel to romex cables and have not noticed any problems.

psubaron

Okay so I have run coaxial and cat5e cables to each room.

I am looking at Leviton enclosure options and need help deciding what to get. I have 8 coaxial connections, 7 phone and 7 internet. I want an enclosure with modules for TV, phone and internet. Also I am planning to run speaker wires throughout the house for music and theater in the living room and basement. Should I connect these to the enclosure and use just one receiver to control the house speakers or just wire each room individually and control it from the receiver in room?

gregzoll

Everything should go to the cabinet. Also keep in mind, if doing multi-room sound, you have to run wire for the control modules, and look at a multi-room amp.

leungw

psubaron, I posted a picture of my Leviton enclosures in the thread below a while ago. Might give you some ideas.

Patch panel, help ID