On Tue, 23 Jan 2018 13:28:29 +0000, John Rumm
wrote:

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+1, also I would add that finding a nice make of connector makes life
much easier as well.

Agreed.

That "Excel" brand I linked to above is very nice
to wire since you can push the wire into the outer part of the terminal
by hand[1] easily enough, and it grips it firmly. That lets you get all
8 wires in the right place first, and then munch them all down at the
same time, rather than individually.

I think I would typically do them in pairs but as you say, if it held
all 4 pairs, then 'a cable' at a time would be more efficient.

[1] Strip 40mm or so of outer when you start and there is enough wire to
get a proper grip on! The punchdown tool will trip to length.

Check.


and what do you put at the outlet
end?

Std, mini, surface, flush, 1-4 way boxes, again with the wires punched
in using the same 'code' (they are often colour coded and a couple of
different ways) at the 'hub' end.

Yup there are two common wiring patterns for these things TIA-568A and
568B - it does not matter which you use, but you must use the same at
both ends. The B variant now seems far more common, and many of the
connectors are now only marked with the B colour code which actually
makes life easier since you don't need to stop and think each time which
you want!

I generally check both ends before I start as I have had it with one
end marked in one and the other marked in both. ;-(

You need to start the ball rolling with how *you* want to lay it all
out (if to use 1 big patch, a couple of smaller ... or separate boxes
at the 'comms' end, depending on how many ends you have) and what type
of boxes you want at the remote ends and we go from there (happy to
pop over and hook it all up etc). ;-)

In this day and age it makes sense to stick it all over the place -
assume each TV, blueray player, AV Amp, games console etc will want
ethernet - so having sockets handy makes like easier.

Agreed. I 'flood wired' this place with Cat3 many years ago now and
still using much of it.

Cheers, T i m

p.s. Most of my wiring has been done on Cat5e ('hundreds' of runs) so
I'd have to research the Cat6 option.

Its much the same, just a bit harder to work (due to using Screened
Twisted Pair rather than UTP), and you need to make sure you use CAT6
qualified modules etc.

Thanks for that.

I have used (Cat5e) STP at a power station but from memory it was only
the cable itself that was screened, not the individual cable pairs?
This requited an appropriate STP patch panel and the use of STP patch
cords and switches etc.

Cheers, T i m

On Tue, 23 Jan 2018 13:16:32 +0000, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:

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I've not had that problem on powerline. Just on brodcomm crappy wifi
drivers.

Probably more like 'Broadcom drivers on Linux ...'.

I went though a phase of replacing any WiFi card that Linux didn't
like OOTB with one it did because it was such a PITA getting Linux to
worth with stuff. Linux seemed to like Intel cards so they were what I
often used (in laptops etc).

I bought 3 'identical' Netbooks at the same time and set them all to
dual boot Linux with XP. Two worked on Linux fine and one didn't. The
one that didn't happened to come with a different brand of WiFi card.
All 3 were happy under XP of course.

I had to risk the guarantee to change the one Linux wasn't happy with
but it was worth the risk, just to make the Netbook more 'Linux
compatible'.

Tail wagging the dog though ... ;-(

Cheers, T i m

In article l.net,
Dave Liquorice scribeth thus
On Tue, 23 Jan 2018 00:48:00 +0000, Roger Hayter wrote:

A separate WiFi access point, with an ethernet connection (upstairs
ceiling mounted with POE is quite labour saving) ...

Provided the ceiling plasterboards aren't foil backed, in the loft
central ish over the building outline is less obtrusive.

I bet that most peoples trouble with WiFi coverage is down to poor
placement, RF wise, of the AP. Mainly beacuse of the "one box"
modem/router/switch/AP solution. It gets plonked within 6' of a phone
socket and shoved somewhere out of the way so ends up in far flung
corner of the house and partly buried under other stuff.



Let alone the very few channels that are there to be shared..


... and its own SSID overcomes most of the disadvantages of an extender.

Even better if you have it on a different channel, so both APs can
talk at the same time. Why do you have a different SSID? To get
coverage here I've two APS, on different channels but same SSID,
devices seamlessly switch between them.


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Tony Sayer