How to WIRE your house for ETHERNET (CAT 6 10 GbE setup)

This video goes over how to wire your house for 10GbE Ethernet including how to make the drops and how to punchdown the connectors. This allows you to ditch wifi and get by far the fastest ethernet connection possible.

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[hb]

I live in Texas. My house is T-568A — 5 year old home.

My brother-in-law just built a house, they put T-568A

My mother-in-law just built a house, also T-568A.

I wired my neighbor’s house for fun… his is also A—different builder.

I hear a lot about the B being the most common type, but honestly, not from my experience.

Amazing video. Would sub again if I hadn’t like a long time ago. Keep it going!!

[HoleLeashIt]

Recently just wired my entire house too. It felt like a chore terminating those cables the first time, but towards the end of the project, it actually became the fun part of it all. I used the pass through ones though, coz I’m not a masochist

[jim]

Thank you for this video. I just started terminating my cat. 6 cable in my house. You provided a lot of very useful info.

[DavidM]

When running your data cables through the walls, try to keep them away from the electrical lines. Where you can't avoid this, cross them at close to 90 degrees to minimize the distance that they are in proximity to each other.

[DrLoveQc]

Cool video. I didnt expected to be this good and details.

For the termination standards, Im working for an MSO cable company and we all use T568A in datacenters/headends. Seems also very use in others datarooms I saw.
But for sure it doesnt matter as long as you keep the same.

For the keystone, we use a lot the female-female version over the punch. Usually its in tight spots or last U of the rack. It is also quicker for us.
Nowdays we use almost only MM LC-LC fibers for cabling between racks if possible for reliability and speed. If length is under 10ft we use patch cables in racks with top of rack switch configuration.
I use monoprice for patch cables, never had a single issue with over 5000 cables for far. I use only the flexboot version, the one with the cover are sometimes almost impossible to disconnect on a high density router and I damaged few sfp this way.

[simranbajwa]

Sucks that more and more laptops are eliminating the ethernet port.

[PoisonWaffle]

Cool stuff! Agreed that hardwired is the way to go anywhere that it's possible. We just built a new house and I ran 7000ft of Cat6 before sheetrock went up. 4 jacks per wall plate, at least one or two wall plates on every wall (including kitchen, garage, closets), plus more higher up on the walls for wall mount TV's, a dozen runs for security cameras, runs for APs, etc. I finished punching down the first two 48 port patch panels, still one left.

I highly recomend using a punchdown stand. It'll save your hands, and help prevent a lot of broken keystones 👍

[allent]

There is cradle for the keystone that holds it while punching down the wires. Also if you have CAT5e you still may get 10gb speeds depending on the run. Always test before replacing the runs.

[MikeEbrahimi]

Let's get him to 30k subscribers y'all! Press that button!

[JasonsLabVideos]

Your punch-down tool should cut the cable off on the sides, if not, then its either Dull, or a piece of garbage tool. Good video .. !

[HunterTheWalrus]

Welcome to Huntsville! Wanna come run my CAT6 for me? Lol. Jokes aside, I just bought my first house and have been debating about hiring an electrician to run my CAT6 for me... I think I might go that route. Hope you like it here!

[rosyprakash]

Can we wire whole house with single cable. One of my office is cabled with ethernet socket and single output ethernet cable is given for all rooms. Is it possible to do so...one of electrician has wired like so...
I'm confused what he has done 😁

[toneloc]

nice setup I want todot that someday i wired my house for back haul meash point but my end game is home network setup like yours in the basement

[SAKA-]

I’ve just finished running cat6 cable to 4 rooms in the house, all double drops, all dropping from the attic and being terminated in keystone patch panel that’s in a network cabinet bolted to the wall. Maximum run may be about 20m so should be within speed limits.

I think what would be beneficial is a video on how to test cable runs, that tell you the max speed. Testers that do this are ridiculously expensive and I don’t see why as it’s just software surely? What are cheaper methods? I’ve read using iperf with computers connected on both ends is a solution. I may just try this

[bmthfan]

The other nice thing about hard wiring your house, is devices that are restricted to wifi will get better signal because there isnt a television or oc or game console taking the max amount of bandwidth.

[GamerFromJump]

If you’re building a house new, you just want to run the lines during construction in their own conduit right?

[jimholloway]

I live in Upland, California and I want to mount some Ubiquiti cameras (3-5 G4 Bullets) on my house. Do I need outdoor cable ? We do get some rain here but we get a lot of HEAT, so what would you recommend?

[jfkastner]

Well done! As for the Keystones i use trendnet "TC-K50C6" they are about $1.20 a piece BUT no need for a punchdown tool - the wires are held by the lid, once you close it the wires get connected. Much quicker and easier (BTW I do NOT work for them!)

[OneManyHobbies]

I'd love to see more regarding 10gb connection from your switch to your NAS & your computer.

You actually got it backwards we call a jack the female end and an rj45 the male end