I'm about to wire up my house, and have decided to run Ethernet cable
pretty much everywhere, using it for both data and audio.

Was originally going to use cat 5, but have instead settled on Cat 7
(which in the UK only appears to be available from Canford). It will
cost quite a lot more, but it's not often I have all my floorboards
up, and I'd like to future-proof as much as I can!

My plan was to run the cat 7 to deep single- and double-gang metal
boxes, to which I'd attach Canford connector plates with holes that
will take either XLR, BNC, phono or BNC sockets. This way I have
flexibility over what to feed to different locations.


One concern is that Cat 7 uses solid core rather than stranded
conductors - will this create problems in connecting to the various
sockets? I've seen reference to needing to connect using a punchdown
block, and I'm not sure how this would work in the setup I'm
envisaging.

This is a bit of a leap into the dark for me, representing quite a big
investment plus a real headache if I put it all in, replaster my walls
and lay the floors, only to find it doesn't work, so I'd be very
keen for any thoughts.

Many thanks,

Chris