Hey now. My house is from the 1980's. All the rg wiring is 'old' according to the cable company geek that came out and hooked up the modem. Only the stuff coming in from the curb is new/rg6 (I believe that Anyhow, I hate cables that are run all over the house and on this particular house there are plenty of wires hanging all around on the exterior.
We don't watch cable tv, we only use the ethernets on the world wide web to watch jpegs and the htmls. Okay, I'm sorry I was having fun sounding like I was 90.
My real problem is I have a modem where the rg6 comes in from the curb. That modem does not give enough signal across the house and upstairs to my office (convenient, huh?) for my wife to successfully telecommute. Currently our computer and 2 monitors are on our dining room table. Classy, right? I was hoping I could buy some outdoor rated cat and run that above ground under the bottom of the siding so it's out of sight. Most of the stuff I see online is 'direct burial' so I'm curious if I MUST bury it or will it be okay. I don't want to run cables inside the home because I screwed up and fixed all the drywall and painted long before I even thought about cat. I know that there are signal repeaters etc. but I don't want something that could fail and then have my wife complain.
Lastly, which cable should I use? Cat5, Cat6, 6e or 6a? I have no idea what those things mean and which is the newest standard. Or should I just split the existing rg6 and run that around to the other side of the house and use a non wireless modem up there? Thanks.
Cool, thanks for the helpful response. I already have an ac modem, I have heard horror stories about the extenders and repeaters. The ONLY solution is hard wired for my needs.
Is there anything I should look for when purchasing my cat6 considering the run will be about 140'? Is there really a difference between cat6e, cat6a etc?
ddawg16, I use only Cat-5e in my house. No problems with the POE injector for my A/P I use. It is a misnomer that Cat-5e cannot do POE or even over 1gb/s.
ddawg16, I use only Cat-5e in my house. No problems with the POE injector for my A/P I use. It is a misnomer that Cat-5e cannot do POE or even over 1gb/s.
cat6a gives you an operating frequency of 250Mhz, while the 6e claims to double that. The 6e though is not officially recognized by the Telecommunications Industry Association
In all honesty I would use the 6 if you're going to run it outside simply and specifically because the casing is thicker (longer weather protection) but you won't notice a difference in operation between the 5e and the 6
A/P? NAS? UPS? What are those things gregzoll? I'm an idiot when it comes to networking. I just know to unplug the router and modem when they don't work lol.
A/P? NAS? UPS? What are those things gregzoll? I'm an idiot when it comes to networking. I just know to unplug the router and modem when they don't work lol.
NAS-it's a shared network drive. A lot of the new routers have an NAS pot that let's you plug in a USB external drive and it now become available to anyone on the network.
My real problem is I have a modem where the rg6 comes in from the curb. That modem does not give enough signal across the house and upstairs to my office (convenient, huh?) for my wife to successfully telecommute.
Man, you really got me confused. You don't need no stinking cat something run all over the house.
Immediately downstream of your cable modem, you should install a wireless router. That will give all of your devices access to the outside world. There is no need to run cable. If the signal is weak upstairs or wherever, add a wireless repeater.
These days, wireless printers can be connected so you can print to them from your network devices...again, no cable required. My Canon printer/scanner is just sitting on the desk. It was in the dining room when we first fired it up.
Immediately downstream of your cable modem, you should install a wireless router. That will give all of your devices access to the outside world. There is no need to run cable. If the signal is weak upstairs or wherever, add a wireless repeater.
It depends on what you're doing.
If you're streaming full sized blu ray rips from nas to tv for example or even transferring 20 or 40 gig files then wireless can be more of a pain than anything else. There is also a security risk with wireless as opposed to hard wire.
A good system will operate on both principles. Wireless for the smaller hand held devices and hard wire for the work horse situations.
I have a similar problem but didn't want to use wireless repeaters. So I bought and $30 router at Walmart. The modem is downstairs at the service drop so it gets maximum Cable RF signal. Then I run CAT5 wiring from basement up to top of a cabinet in my main floor kitchen that is dead center of my home. There is the cheapo walmart router being used as an access point.
A couple things:
- The CAT5 connects from a LAN port of the basement modem to a LAN (you don't use WAN jack) on the cheapo router.
- Set up the upstairs router on a different RF channel than the basement one. Use a non overlapping channel 1,6, and 11 are completely non overlapping.
- disable NAT and DHCP on the upstairs router. Your main router will provide these services
- set up the WiFi SSID and password the same as in the main router. This will allow clients to roam within your home and automatically lock onto the access point best for that location.
It depends on what you're doing. If you're streaming full sized blu ray rips from nas to tv for example or even transferring 20 or 40 gig files then wireless can be more of a pain than anything else. There is also a security risk with wireless as opposed to hard wire. A good system will operate on both principles. Wireless for the smaller hand held devices and hard wire for the work horse situations. I wouldn't even consider going strictly wireless.
That is exactly how I have my house wired. I have coax and 2 cat6's going to each spot where a tv will be. And I have another cat 6 in key rooms for a computer. In addition to my wireless.
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