This summer, when the wife is on holiday, I intend to take down the
manky lath & plaster walls and ceiling in the main bedroom and put up
plasterboard. This will enable me to run some extra cables for sockets and a
telephone extension in the kids room so they can connect their computer in
the void.
It would be handy to run a network cable from the box room (my office)
to the kids room to exchange data in the void, rather than trail a data
cable along the landing. Can I get a diy installation of sockets and cabling
anywhere?

Thanks

Kevin

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This summer, when the wife is on holiday, I intend to take down the
manky lath & plaster walls and ceiling in the main bedroom and put up
plasterboard. This will enable me to run some extra cables for sockets and a
telephone extension in the kids room so they can connect their computer in
the void.
It would be handy to run a network cable from the box room (my office)
to the kids room to exchange data in the void, rather than trail a data
cable along the landing. Can I get a diy installation of sockets and cabling
anywhere?

You can get this sort of stuff from B&Q, and you'll probably find it
quite cheap. What's the distance? 54G wireless doesn't give any
noticeble slow-down for Internet stuff.

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Hywel I do not eat quiche
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You could try maplin.co.uk if there is one near you as they do
a cat5 cabling kit that includes crimpers and a long length of cat5
for under 50quid - they do all the components separately too if needs be.
regards
@ngusC
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In article ,
says...
This summer, when the wife is on holiday, I intend to take down the
manky lath & plaster walls and ceiling in the main bedroom and put up
plasterboard. This will enable me to run some extra cables for sockets
and a
telephone extension in the kids room so they can connect their computer
in
the void.
It would be handy to run a network cable from the box room (my
office)
to the kids room to exchange data in the void, rather than trail a data
cable along the landing. Can I get a diy installation of sockets and
cabling
anywhere?

You can get this sort of stuff from B&Q, and you'll probably find it
quite cheap. What's the distance? 54G wireless doesn't give any
noticeble slow-down for Internet stuff.

--
Hywel I do not eat quiche
http://kibo.org.uk/
http://kibo.org.uk/mfaq.php

I have a local Maplin so I will give them a look as well as B&Q.

Thanks

Kevin
"Angus C" wrote in message
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You could try maplin.co.uk if there is one near you as they do
a cat5 cabling kit that includes crimpers and a long length of cat5
for under 50quid - they do all the components separately too if needs be.
regards
@ngusC
"Hywel" wrote in message
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In article ,
says...
This summer, when the wife is on holiday, I intend to take down
the
manky lath & plaster walls and ceiling in the main bedroom and put up
plasterboard. This will enable me to run some extra cables for sockets
and a
telephone extension in the kids room so they can connect their
computer
in
the void.
It would be handy to run a network cable from the box room (my
office)
to the kids room to exchange data in the void, rather than trail a
data
cable along the landing. Can I get a diy installation of sockets and
cabling
anywhere?

You can get this sort of stuff from B&Q, and you'll probably find it
quite cheap. What's the distance? 54G wireless doesn't give any
noticeble slow-down for Internet stuff.

--
Hywel I do not eat quiche
http://kibo.org.uk/
http://kibo.org.uk/mfaq.php

"Kevin Rayner" wrote in message
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This summer, when the wife is on holiday, I intend to take down the
manky lath & plaster walls and ceiling in the main bedroom and put up
plasterboard. This will enable me to run some extra cables for sockets and
a
telephone extension in the kids room so they can connect their computer in
the void.
It would be handy to run a network cable from the box room (my
office)
to the kids room to exchange data in the void, rather than trail a data
cable along the landing. Can I get a diy installation of sockets and
cabling
anywhere?

Others will give you the a-z of that but can I put in a plea for installing
sockets at, say, waist height? We did that in several rooms and it's so much
easier than having to bend down and push and pull plugs in at floor level.

There is of course some risk of damage from furniture, this can be taken
into account when deciding the positions. But there's a risk of damage even
at floor level so there's no difference there.

Mary

Thanks

Kevin

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Mary Fisher wrote:
Others will give you the a-z of that but can I put in a plea for
installing sockets at, say, waist height? We did that in several rooms
and it's so much easier than having to bend down and push and pull plugs
in at floor level.

Why would you want to unplug network thingies?

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Dave Plowman London SW 12
RIP Acorn

Mary Fisher wrote:

"Kevin Rayner" wrote in message
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This summer, when the wife is on holiday, I intend to take down the
manky lath & plaster walls and ceiling in the main bedroom and put up
plasterboard. This will enable me to run some extra cables for sockets and
a
telephone extension in the kids room so they can connect their computer in
the void.
It would be handy to run a network cable from the box room (my
office)
to the kids room to exchange data in the void, rather than trail a data
cable along the landing. Can I get a diy installation of sockets and
cabling
anywhere?

Others will give you the a-z of that but can I put in a plea for installing
sockets at, say, waist height? We did that in several rooms and it's so much
easier than having to bend down and push and pull plugs in at floor level.

There is of course some risk of damage from furniture, this can be taken
into account when deciding the positions. But there's a risk of damage even
at floor level so there's no difference there.

For mains plugs, yes...
But for network plugs, where you are typically going to plug things in
for months or years at a time?

I put in Cat5e cabling in all my bedrooms when I built an extension (and
knocked out all bar 2 of the internal walls upstairs).

I bought modular sockets (which can be RJ45/BT) from Farnells and used a
chrone tool to connect the Cat5 cable into the back. I put in two cable runs
per room - for some resiliance in case one of them getts squashed, chewed,
damanged, nailed, etc! All get routed to my main PC room which has two
double gang faceplates (with a maximum of 8 net sockets). Patch leads then
connect each room to the switch which is the router for the Internet. Cat5e
cable was from Screwfix. I think in total it was around £100 for 5 rooms
worth of stuff.

Wireless is good (well above Internet connection speed) but whether it's
fast enough depends how much copying across the LAN you do (I do backups)
and whether you are patient or not (heck, I'm not that patient!!).

"Kevin Rayner" wrote in message
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This summer, when the wife is on holiday, I intend to take down the
manky lath & plaster walls and ceiling in the main bedroom and put up
plasterboard. This will enable me to run some extra cables for sockets and
a
telephone extension in the kids room so they can connect their computer in
the void.
It would be handy to run a network cable from the box room (my
office)
to the kids room to exchange data in the void, rather than trail a data
cable along the landing. Can I get a diy installation of sockets and
cabling
anywhere?

Thanks

Kevin