Wiring our entire house with Ethernet cabling

My brother and I decided to hardwire out home with ethernet cables, and in this video I'll show you how we did it.

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[juangarnica]

God as a cable technician, I wish every customer knew this. Too many don’t and cry about there internet speeds not showing. Try explaining this to most I come across but most don’t even understand how to connect to there wifi 😂. Wi-Fi isn’t always the best in certain types of homes people just assume there services providers modems are a one sizes fits all. Damn sellsman!!

[jpTv]

Here’s a tip….those twisted cables, that blue extra piece you used to untwist the pairs, use that same thing to insert into each curled wire, pinch and pull, straightens the curled wires…..could’ve saved you all that time you used to try and straighten them out individulally with your fingers….literally

[pawpaw]

Great project, good video! Two recommendations to add polish to your new network: 1. At 5:27 that RJ45 crimp was not optimal. The cable jacket should extend all the way into the plug and under the “strain bar”. When the plug is crimped, the cable jacket should be crimped under the strain bar. 2. At 12:38 there are dangling cables near your switch. Best practice calls for Permanent Ethernet cable runs (called drops) to be terminated with a patch panel on one end and then terminated to a keystone jack on the remote end. Consider re-routing and terminating the cables near the switch into an inexpensive 12-port patch panel, leaving you expansion capacity to add cable runs later. Cable Matters makes an excellent 12-port patch panel, cost is less than $24. Good choice on the TrueCable cat 6 cable, BTW. Excellent quality cable.

[kibass]

No question it was worth it, that speed increase 🤯

[mosdef]

Great tips. Thanks. I thought making my own câbles was hard but looking at what you did, it seems easier than I thought. So thank you!

[dennisranck]

I read all the comments, and I did watch the video in its entirety. I wired my house completely for internet, I also did my sister's mobile home. I used cat 6 in my house and cat 5 in my sister's house. I did like some people are suggesting in these comments, I did use a keystone and a wall plate at each room. In fact none of my cabling has got an and crimped on to it like you did here. I would recommend replacing those ends with, even where the wireless access points are.

[RedLotus]

i may not ever have a use for this but, i suddenly want to run ethernet cables through my house. fun little project. idk how u make everything entertaining.

[LDLillian]

The speed check at the end was SO satisfying! Thanks for this very detailed video. I might just do it! (and the Catholic Conversion therapy camp joke was hilarious!)

[JEMAR]

instructions got too complicated. I ended up in the desert with a dog bowl

[RB-kmze]

This was a lot of fun to watch, Thank You. Keep it up, subscribed.

[KohiBlend]

this was actually super interesting to watch <3

[revealingfactsall]

you want that outer cable jacket also inside the crimp. Low voltage ethernet cables should be away from the higher AC supply lines so as to maximize the effective shielding & twists. In your video showing cables in stairwell I can see the ehternet cables touching what appears to be an AC supply line.

[zeroturn]

Had a field tech from my ISP do this for $80 back in 2017, then another run for $90 in 2021. Good to know the ins and outs of how it’s done.

[dustinandrew]

Something i did to my home to run my ethernet cables from attic to basement floor was running some non metallic smurf tubing thru the walls I did next to my return duct and also label ur cables to the locations so they can be together an neat, also by having that tube u have a way that if u wanted to add more cables in the future it's a simple drop down the pipe and ur good

[ayyzapp]

Great video my dude. Very informational and helps out a bunch;

[richroberts]

You know for all the good and bad pretty good presentation. Good on PPE. This job always a pita. I may try using coax since house has cable co-ax throughout. That I am not using as I Stream and use antennae for TV.

[Jannickjay]

Haha funny guy! Thanks for the video. In some weeks I will start this project plus outside AP. My problem is…. I don’t have drywall, just masonry 😅🤙

[BlueNoteStan]

Next time you go to straighten those wires, use something smooth and round like a small screwdriver shaft and once you untwist them, press the conductors against the screwdriver and use the force to flatten the wires. I usually do it in the colored pairs. Also if you're doing the pass throughs, once you sort them into their proper color order, cut them all flush across the top so they go in the connector better. I will, however, echo other commenters, you should use keystone jacks on both ends and use factory-made, stranded copper patch cables for connecting devices to infrastructure wiring.

[therealyousef]

Great video! Curious to know why not just run one cable from the basement to the attic and have a switch at the attic space

[aurvaroy]

This is a nice video but I have a couple suggestions to improve your network.

Always run at least two lines to each wall drop or a pull string if you anticipate adding more later. I know switches exist but you can't always rely on a single line to last forever. It's always better to have some redundancy, whether it's a room with multiple jacks or multiple lines behind each jack. I've had two of my single network lines in different rooms fail on me and that wasn't fun to deal with.

Pull string helps allows you to run new wires to an existing location without removing the existing wires or fishing the new wire. It's very convenient and cheap insurance, especially when the drop has insulation.

You kept saying how annoying and tedious it is to run networking, which I completely agree. So you definitely don't wanna go back to your attic, fish a new wire over and over again.

Also, I prefer a keystone to keystone termination for both ends when using bulk cable. Keystones are way easier and faster to terminate. They allow lots of flexibility in positioning, especially in whatever network room your cables end up in