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Yup. When we built our home I had them run two CAT-5 cables to the center of every wall in every room in the house. Yes, lots of cable. Cable is cheap. They
by rebootthesystem 11y ago
Yup. When we built our home I had them run two CAT-5 cables to the center of every wall in every room in the house. Yes, lots of cable. Cable is cheap. They did this before insulating and closing the walls, which made it super easy. All cables go to the garage. The garage itself has four cables per wall (hint: never in my life have I parked a car in my garage).
The cables are not brought out to connectors at all. When a need for connectivity appears it is easy to tone a cable through the wall, find the wires, cut through and install a box with connectors.
Thanks to this setup wifi use is kept to a minimum and security is enhanced greatly. It's always fun to watch the reaction of phone company technicians the few times we've changed internet connectivity when they walk into a garage full of computers, lab and cnc equipment and an EIA rack with servers, a large switch, hardware firewall and patch panels. They usually say something like "OK, here's the cable, it might be better if you wire it."