Timestamps 00:00 Intro 01:43 Office Overview 02:57 Living Room Overview 03:41 Network Closet Overview 04:29 Attic Time 05:08 Drilling Holes for Cables 06:10 Above Office Drilling 07:01 Fishing Cable in the Office 10:21 Stripping in the Office 11:11 Network Patch Panel 11:27 Finished Look of the Office 11:56 Drilling above the Living Room 12:10 Fishing Cables from Server Room 12:16 Behind the TV 12:44 Finished Look at our Work 13:20 Conclusion
Those Ubiquiti APs are designed to be ceiling-mounted, their beam pattern is specifically wide and (comparatively) shallow to cover the largest distance. With it on the wall, you're pointing half your coverage up, and you won't get any coverage at all behind the unit.
As a person that installed networks for a living and pulling cables. When pulling cables through a small opening or hole. You want plenty of room for the cables.As the hole fills up making the space to pull a cable smaller. You can burn through the cables with the friction of the cable your pulling, either burning through the whole cable or just exposing the wires inside the insulating outer cover. Just one exposed wire will cause it to fail. Then you have trace down the failure. You have to many cables in the already existing hole. Looks like you have 8 cables in a 1 inch hole. Six would be the max I would have ran in that hole. Also, do NOT pull the cables tight like they are at 6:25 in the video. That's not good at all, the thin wires inside can break over time. You want some slack or service loop. Your setting your network cables up to fail over time. The slack also allows you to re-terminate the cable at the jack, if you have to without running a new cable. Yes jacks go bad. Cables should be able to be pulled without much force. Use push-pull rods in walls when running cable. Fish tapes can bend and loop back up the wall cavity, due to insulation. NEVER pull the cables tight!!! When you are terminating the cables, you don't want to untwist the wires any more than needed to terminate. The twist in the wires is what gives you those speeds. Untwisting them that far from the jack 12:29 can degrade the speed. Sorry but I have to give this a fail. If I seen that job, I would make them redo it all and do it right.
I wish i had the room in my attic too. I can get up there but its just right where the opening is, and after that the roof comes down to so close to the floor. I might have to pay big money to get cables ran, ugh.
Nice video and some good tips. When looking at your rack I can see that you're wiring a bunch of the drops directly into the 8 ports on the UDM however its worth noting that those are all on a shared 1Gbps backplane so you'd be better wiring them into your other switch and then using the 10Gbe uplink to the UDM :-)
Was gonna comment this. I bought a UDM Pro last year and learned that fact after I bought it. I had less than 8 wired devices so was trying to get away without a switch for a while.
@@SPXLabs not yet. I’m sitting at 6 wired devices at the moment and most aren’t used at the same time anyways so it’s not the end of the world. When I move into a house later this year I’ll get a switch and wire the house. Get a rack and everything. Holding off till then
Depending on your locale it is now required to use a fire barrier/block sealant in holes that pass between floors, which was probably what you ran into in a couple of pre-existing runs. You can pick up a tube of the sealant at your local home center.
@@SPXLabs Me, too, and I guess everyone who does not pay them - except advertisers & subscribers ... I now get some Ads in Korean, or Botox Ads in Spanish ... WHY???
Wow, I wish I had all that space in my attic. I drilled 3 holes to run all my cables up the wall to my server closet. I had to run all my cables under my house. All my drilled holes I filled with with a little expanding foam to fully plug the drilled holes closed. If only to keep any bugs from climbing up into the walls of my house. I also say cable is chea-. Better to run a bunch of cables to each room at have a few extra ports at least for extra devices down the road. You also don’t need full boxes. You can use just the rings around the drywall, called low power boxes. The extra slack can easily be pushed back into the wall.
How did you know where to drill the hole so that your fish tape went down right in front of the area you expect it to come down. How did you originally cut the wall where that fish tape came down?
i bought female to female keystone jacks. 25 pack, 10 pack of single keystone wall plates, another 10 pack of keystone wall plates but double, 3 packs of 100 pcs eack rj45 pass through connectors cat 5e and a pass through crimper. i added a 16 port switch to my network. all i need now is more cable
Good question! Cat6 can do everything cat7 can do and if I really needed more bandwidth for whatever reason I’d jump to cat8 or fiber instead. Also as of today I can barely handle 1GBps and without heavier investment anything more is just too expensive at this time.
@@SPXLabs ahh fantastic. I’ve just purchased a new house so am planning a network that is hopefully future proof. What would you recommend I run in regards to Ethernet cables?
Well cat8 if you can afford it, otherwise cat6/a is fine. If you are going to be in a hose that is bigger than 2500sq ft then fiber is probably the best route. There are a load of dependencies in truth and a lot to consider. So in the most general sense cat6 should be good enough.
I see you have AT&T fiber also and I guess yeah they make you use that Gateway first, can you make a video of how you did it pass through or Bridge so you can connect all the other routers and switches to it
Love the video man! And hey att has a newer modem that has wifi 6 and the fiber plugs right into the back of it using a sfp plug and it has a 5 gig port on the back of it for when we offer faster than 1 gig it's called the bgw 320 rg thing works way better than the 210 you have
Thanks for giving.... 😎 me those kind words. I just heard about the new att router. Any pro tips for getting att to hand one over? Would calling and asking be enough?
@@SPXLabs should be enough to call in and ask! And if they wont just call back in with yours unplugged and they will send out a tech and just ask the tech for one we love easy tickets where all we have to do is swap a modem lol
Hi, Very informative. I have a question, I have my modem and internet connection point in the living room. and I have three-bed house. Do I need to run three different lines from the living room to 3 bedrooms? Or can I run just run one line from the living room to one bedroom and joint the line from that bedroom to another, and so on?
For power and phone lines you can piggy back like that, for ethernet (data and commercial voip) I believe it has to be dedicated runs to the switch/patchpanel.
you can daisy chain connections like that with switches in each room, but all the rooms will be sharing that one cables bandwidth, so if their is no bandwidth restraint you could. However you are going to be doing the same amount of work running the lines and spending more putting switches in every room, so there isnt a good reason to do this, but it is possible.
Have you tried asking ATT for a BGW 320? You have the gear to take advantage of the 20% overprovsion after all! I consistently get 1.2gbit down with the speedtest app on my computer through my BGW 320 but tbf not even Blizzards' updates can saturate the connection
This is my goal to have all the rooms wired with cat6 cable. One thing are you getting 10gig at home or more is that why you needed to switch things around?
My internet is only 1Gbps. My office is the only place where I really "need" 10GbE, because I am backing up loads of videos and junk. I went with Cat6 because it can do 1GBps all over my house no problem and I feel like that is pretty good for "future proofing".
@@SPXLabs Well you are a lucky man to have 10gig... I know my max ISP goes to 1gig. I plan to order the same rack you have since your closet looks like mine. The only thing is cost on buying everything since I just moved into a new house. already have my unifi AP and dream machine. Wife is asking questions and starting to say no because of cost and if it's worth it. still need a POE switch and patch ports plus all cables items stuff. ugh Keep up the great videos.
I feel you. Thankfully TH-cam subsidizes a bit of my costs (not significantly). The problem too with houses is, you buy something then something in the house breaks and it’s always like $1000 at a minimum to fix. IMO there is nothing wrong with it looking like crap for a while and saving up for exactly what you want.
@@SPXLabs Yes very true. For now I have my 3 AP and my dream machine on it's way. I'm going to use a Linksys POE switch to run then. I just need to purchase the all the cable and tools to make them. Running cat6 is good enough right rather then running cat6e. I just want to get my full or close to what I'm paying for on my speed. Before I moved I had cat8 from my router to regular hub and man I was getting speeds over what I was paying for.
It depends on distance. Cat6A can carry 10Gb further than Cat6. I live in a small house so Cat6 works fine. If you have a bigger house then you may need to upgrade to Cat6A
@@vincecatapano9020I’m sorry to bring you back to this, but I just bought my first home and I am struggling terribly due to the firebreaks you mentioned, any tips or advise? I would really appreciate it
Where did you buy the white cables from? Plus you have a white longer cable on the right size connect from the dream machine to the switch. What kind of cable is that?
I know this is a older video, but why didn't you just put your rack in your attic? You would have more room work with and I know for me, my rack is in my basement so I also have room to work around.
What is that box in your wall that you bring the cables into? It almost looks like an electrical panel box. I need to bring a lot of wires into a closet and tryying to figure out how to do it in an air tight way. thanks
For reference the a and b standard are just the two ends of a crossover cable. wires 1 and 3 swap places and the same with 2 and 6. This is the change of RX and TX for both NICs. So OW wire is the transmit (-) on one side and will be the receive (-) on the other side. so if you follow, the orange and green pairs are actually the only pairs that transceive data, at least in anything below cat 7 cable. The blue and brown pairs are reserved for other technologies like POTS lines, POE, or technically another data connection, although that's pretty sketchy. You only ever make the crossover cable if you are plugging a computer directly to a router/modem or another computer, switches do this transmit receive flip internally. Although most computers today with fix the transmit receive in software if you are using the wrong cables with a pretty good success rate.
Where did you get your fiber optic cables? I keep checking Ubiquiti's sight but they don't have any. Also, how do I know if I should get single mode or multi mode? Appreciate your response
store.ui.com/collections/unifi-accessories-cables Honestly I can’t give you a good answer on how to know when. But I’m very confident there is plenty of information to be pulled from the Google. Sorry
You said that was cat6 cable right, not cat 6a, how many runs fit in a single hole and do you know how much bigger 6a is than the 6 you used? I've been thinking of trying to wire my house and figured I'd do 6 wires per plate in each spot then I can change the functionality by moving patch cables in the comm closet.
Yes cat6. I’m not sure how many fit, never thought to count. Cat6a may be thicker but I don’t think it’s big enough to make any real or noticeable difference unless you are engineering something to be built to the micron specification. I’d say if you are going to go through the effort of wiring, you may as well run the extra cable. Just because it’s ran doesn’t mean you have to use it. So your wall plates can have more or less ports depending on how you feel.
Cat 6a is the same size. It does has a plastic x piece in the middle to better separate the 4 pairs of wires. The issue with 6 keystone plates is getting 6 keystones into it. You need to get ones small enough!!! You can also use a double box and spread out keystones that way. I agree with having more keystones in each area than needed. Because trust me, you’ll end up needing them and don’t want to go back and add more if you don’t have to.
@@SPXLabs Great! even with a cat6 cable installation of about 40 metres in length to a separate ADU behind the house...you don't lose speeds at the other end...that's satisfactory I wish I could do this job myself in my place so I can save money but if I want a good quality and proper working installation job I have to hire a registered data cable installer besides it would be illegal for me to DIY anyway Ye better dial up for a registered electrician, data and telecommunications cable guy 😅👍 Thanks sir
@@SPXLabs Read (red) some info regarding EMI you ever scan your place for any sign of them like near your Ethernet cables by any chance I don't know how accurate and true I am when I say that EM or electromagnetic can interfere with your Ethernet cables function
Fun fact, you can tell how old a telco engineer is by the standard they impliment. 568A is more boomer generation, although I've seen some government requirements that require 568A but that's because they were originally written 25+ years ago but still used in requirements spec. 🤦♂️🤣
@@nismo4x4n that's weird, usually europe and the rest of the world is ahead of us like GSM vs CDMA. GSM was the norm for a long time in europe before it became popular here.
I am 30, live in the US, and have always terminated using 568A standard.. I think it is more or less whichever one you originally decided to cable with and that's the one you stuck with.
It probably would. Just don’t plug in the other side while you are making the cables. You could short out the equipment if you leave one end plugged in.
@@SPXLabs ok, thanks, also can I install Ethernet with a pre made cable instead of having to put the connectors on my self? And I wasn't clear when I said chances of getting electric shocked, I meant while in the attic I could get electric shocked?
If it’s a premade cable then you shouldn’t. It’s also low voltage so you won’t die. I’ve never been shocked by Ethernet but I’ve also never had the cables live while working with them.
I was looking at that yesterday! Any recommendations on a brand? I may wait a couple of months because I think I’m going to add some cameras around the house
Not sure. I’ve added additional equipment since that video and it costs ¢.77 a day, $23.21 a month, or $282.42 a year in electricity. I use around 248 watts per hour.
I'm dumb but how do you know from wall to attic to ceiling thats why you attic first sorry I'm using wifi now sometimes have to go to my router from my bedroom its all the way across my house for wired ethernet sorry I don't know should I get cat 7 whsts best in heat and cold weather for the attic
@@SPXLabs im thinking of getting optic fiber do I just need ethernet lines is the fiber going the lines outside to the outlet that use optic fiber is optic fiber separate then ethernet cable so optic fiber goes like coax cable in a way
The plastic cover doesn't shield EMI. The twists in the pairs is what prevents crosstalk and EMI. Keep the pairs twisted to within .5" of the punch down.
You will have issues with the cat cables. Cat5e is less forgiving, but when you go to cat6 or higher you will have issues. You don't have 70 degree sweeps on the cables. No right angles. I have seen hundreds of cables fail and signals drop.
Because at that point people figure to just use fiber instead. For me though, cat6 is cheap and does 10Gb and I don’t deal with the kind of data Cat8 supports
Cat6 is not certified for the full 100m for 10G but it can definitely do it with good conditions around 55m. Even Cat5e can do 10G with a couple of meters in length.
@@mrmotofy You’re right, CAT6 can handle 10g in most normal size homes!!! Now if you have a 20,000 sq foot Mansion, that might be an issue on some of the longer runs.
Yeah man. If the power drops in the middle of a movie I can just keep watching! In Florida it was amazing because we could still have something to pass the time during the 4 hour or more outages.
@@SPXLabs Yeah, but now you have a crap load of junk and cheap-n-nasty UPS sitting there. Maybe time to look at a decent power setup with either solar/battery setup in essence, whole house UPS.
i hae a pair of strippers i borrowed from my time in the military. they never asked for them back. told me to keep the crimpers in case i do more cables in the base in iraq.
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Timestamps
00:00 Intro
01:43 Office Overview
02:57 Living Room Overview
03:41 Network Closet Overview
04:29 Attic Time
05:08 Drilling Holes for Cables
06:10 Above Office Drilling
07:01 Fishing Cable in the Office
10:21 Stripping in the Office
11:11 Network Patch Panel
11:27 Finished Look of the Office
11:56 Drilling above the Living Room
12:10 Fishing Cables from Server Room
12:16 Behind the TV
12:44 Finished Look at our Work
13:20 Conclusion
I personally would use yellow for POE, cuz yellow is caution and power etc, blue generally means data
Those Ubiquiti APs are designed to be ceiling-mounted, their beam pattern is specifically wide and (comparatively) shallow to cover the largest distance. With it on the wall, you're pointing half your coverage up, and you won't get any coverage at all behind the unit.
What about the Ubiquiti Beacon HD?? Would that be a better fit??
The Day the Earth Stood Still is an excellent movie. Quality taste
As a person that installed networks for a living and pulling cables. When pulling cables through a small opening or hole. You want plenty of room for the cables.As the hole fills up making the space to pull a cable smaller. You can burn through the cables with the friction of the cable your pulling, either burning through the whole cable or just exposing the wires inside the insulating outer cover. Just one exposed wire will cause it to fail. Then you have trace down the failure. You have to many cables in the already existing hole. Looks like you have 8 cables in a 1 inch hole. Six would be the max I would have ran in that hole. Also, do NOT pull the cables tight like they are at 6:25 in the video. That's not good at all, the thin wires inside can break over time. You want some slack or service loop. Your setting your network cables up to fail over time. The slack also allows you to re-terminate the cable at the jack, if you have to without running a new cable. Yes jacks go bad. Cables should be able to be pulled without much force. Use push-pull rods in walls when running cable. Fish tapes can bend and loop back up the wall cavity, due to insulation. NEVER pull the cables tight!!! When you are terminating the cables, you don't want to untwist the wires any more than needed to terminate. The twist in the wires is what gives you those speeds. Untwisting them that far from the jack 12:29 can degrade the speed. Sorry but I have to give this a fail. If I seen that job, I would make them redo it all and do it right.
The house came with cable pre ran which are super tight which is why I drilled new holes. I didn’t do that
@@SPXLabs Good. Whomever did didn't know what they were doing.
I agree. You should have seen the place after ATT came around lol
Nice video! I wish my attic was like yours so much room
#blessed. I feel super lucky about the room up there. If it wasn't the way it was I probably wouldn't be doing anything at all.
I wish i had the room in my attic too. I can get up there but its just right where the opening is, and after that the roof comes down to so close to the floor. I might have to pay big money to get cables ran, ugh.
Just install a hatch on the roof somewhere for unlimited access.
@@SPXLabs thats hilarious! Hmm..damn bro that is an idea...!
Lol it’s a trap!
Nice video and some good tips. When looking at your rack I can see that you're wiring a bunch of the drops directly into the 8 ports on the UDM however its worth noting that those are all on a shared 1Gbps backplane so you'd be better wiring them into your other switch and then using the 10Gbe uplink to the UDM :-)
Dude right! I recent learned that and have made the switch! What kind of crap is that lol!
Was gonna comment this. I bought a UDM Pro last year and learned that fact after I bought it. I had less than 8 wired devices so was trying to get away without a switch for a while.
Oops. Did you end up getting a switch?
@@SPXLabs not yet. I’m sitting at 6 wired devices at the moment and most aren’t used at the same time anyways so it’s not the end of the world. When I move into a house later this year I’ll get a switch and wire the house. Get a rack and everything. Holding off till then
Awesome video. This video is better than some TH-camrs with 3mil subscribers. Good job
Wow, thanks my dude!
Depending on your locale it is now required to use a fire barrier/block sealant in holes that pass between floors, which was probably what you ran into in a couple of pre-existing runs. You can pick up a tube of the sealant at your local home center.
super important to know, thank you for mentioning it
You sound like a ATOS segment.
Well done, young Man. Finally this Vid got recommended to me ;-)
TH-cam hates me
@@SPXLabs Me, too, and I guess everyone who does not pay them - except advertisers & subscribers ... I now get some Ads in Korean, or Botox Ads in Spanish ... WHY???
Anything to make a buck
Wow, I wish I had all that space in my attic. I drilled 3 holes to run all my cables up the wall to my server closet. I had to run all my cables under my house. All my drilled holes I filled with with a little expanding foam to fully plug the drilled holes closed. If only to keep any bugs from climbing up into the walls of my house.
I also say cable is chea-. Better to run a bunch of cables to each room at have a few extra ports at least for extra devices down the road. You also don’t need full boxes. You can use just the rings around the drywall, called low power boxes. The extra slack can easily be pushed back into the wall.
Yikes. I feel lucky.
Aight! I’ll keep it in mind
To make it easier on drilling giant holes without knowing if they go anywhere. Use a smaller bit first .
Yes but that would require thinking. Which I am incapable of. lol
cool posters dude
Glad you got around to making a video on this. Thanks! Now I'm wondering if I should release Fridays video today or not 🤷♂️ suggestions?
I was going to wait for Friday but I think a lot of folk are idle for the holiday so I just released today.
@@SPXLabs I'll release at 2pm AZ time (GMT-7) today instead of tomorrow since that's what the algorithm prediction says should be best for today. 👍
All hail the algorithm
Great job ,I like it
How do you get cables across? Up down is easy but idk how to get mine across the house between floors.
I think people use drills to make holes to go horizontally but I’m not sure. I’m not the best person to ask
How did you know where to drill the hole so that your fish tape went down right in front of the area you expect it to come down. How did you originally cut the wall where that fish tape came down?
Most of the holes that were drilled in the house were done during it's construction. I just added holes nearby to run more cables.
@@SPXLabs thanks!
i bought female to female keystone jacks. 25 pack, 10 pack of single keystone wall plates, another 10 pack of keystone wall plates but double, 3 packs of 100 pcs eack rj45 pass through connectors cat 5e and a pass through crimper. i added a 16 port switch to my network. all i need now is more cable
Someone get this person some cable! ASAP
I wish I could fit in my attic, vaulted ceilings and two stories make no space up there at my place ☹️
Use the drone?
@@SPXLabs that's on my list but will probably do at someone else's house, office, or church that has more space to fly within up in the attic.
Lol but it would be way more cool to fly it in narrow spaces and show off those skills. Also you don’t need FAA approval for indoors!
Rule of thumb is no more than 1/2" of untwisted, unwrapped copper on terminations. This can be tricky on female ends but is doable.
and this gets even more restrained that rating the cat cable has
Is cat6 better than 7 and 8 for home use TVs computers and game systems
Not inherently.
@@SPXLabs so which should I use
There is a few dependencies but in the most general sense, cat6 or cat6a should be more than fine.
@@SPXLabs ok thanks
In the case of Ethernet the network adapter is programmed to respond to a multicast MAC address
Hey is there any reason why you have ran cat6 instead of cat7?
Good question! Cat6 can do everything cat7 can do and if I really needed more bandwidth for whatever reason I’d jump to cat8 or fiber instead. Also as of today I can barely handle 1GBps and without heavier investment anything more is just too expensive at this time.
@@SPXLabs ahh fantastic. I’ve just purchased a new house so am planning a network that is hopefully future proof. What would you recommend I run in regards to Ethernet cables?
Well cat8 if you can afford it, otherwise cat6/a is fine. If you are going to be in a hose that is bigger than 2500sq ft then fiber is probably the best route. There are a load of dependencies in truth and a lot to consider. So in the most general sense cat6 should be good enough.
I see you have AT&T fiber also and I guess yeah they make you use that Gateway first, can you make a video of how you did it pass through or Bridge so you can connect all the other routers and switches to it
I believe I do in this video.
th-cam.com/video/jkHuAS9kv1Q/w-d-xo.html
Love the video man! And hey att has a newer modem that has wifi 6 and the fiber plugs right into the back of it using a sfp plug and it has a 5 gig port on the back of it for when we offer faster than 1 gig it's called the bgw 320 rg thing works way better than the 210 you have
Thanks for giving.... 😎 me those kind words. I just heard about the new att router. Any pro tips for getting att to hand one over? Would calling and asking be enough?
@@SPXLabs should be enough to call in and ask! And if they wont just call back in with yours unplugged and they will send out a tech and just ask the tech for one we love easy tickets where all we have to do is swap a modem lol
Lol okay. I’ll give that whirl
Hi, Very informative. I have a question, I have my modem and internet connection point in the living room. and I have three-bed house. Do I need to run three different lines from the living room to 3 bedrooms? Or can I run just run one line from the living room to one bedroom and joint the line from that bedroom to another, and so on?
You should run a line to each room.
For power and phone lines you can piggy back like that, for ethernet (data and commercial voip) I believe it has to be dedicated runs to the switch/patchpanel.
you can daisy chain connections like that with switches in each room, but all the rooms will be sharing that one cables bandwidth, so if their is no bandwidth restraint you could. However you are going to be doing the same amount of work running the lines and spending more putting switches in every room, so there isnt a good reason to do this, but it is possible.
To setup a network with FTP and use a slip protocol
Have you tried asking ATT for a BGW 320? You have the gear to take advantage of the 20% overprovsion after all!
I consistently get 1.2gbit down with the speedtest app on my computer through my BGW 320 but tbf not even Blizzards' updates can saturate the connection
You mean this?
th-cam.com/video/jkHuAS9kv1Q/w-d-xo.html
@@SPXLabs Ha!! Good to see it
This is my goal to have all the rooms wired with cat6 cable. One thing are you getting 10gig at home or more is that why you needed to switch things around?
My internet is only 1Gbps. My office is the only place where I really "need" 10GbE, because I am backing up loads of videos and junk. I went with Cat6 because it can do 1GBps all over my house no problem and I feel like that is pretty good for "future proofing".
@@SPXLabs Well you are a lucky man to have 10gig... I know my max ISP goes to 1gig. I plan to order the same rack you have since your closet looks like mine. The only thing is cost on buying everything since I just moved into a new house. already have my unifi AP and dream machine. Wife is asking questions and starting to say no because of cost and if it's worth it. still need a POE switch and patch ports plus all cables items stuff. ugh Keep up the great videos.
I feel you. Thankfully TH-cam subsidizes a bit of my costs (not significantly). The problem too with houses is, you buy something then something in the house breaks and it’s always like $1000 at a minimum to fix. IMO there is nothing wrong with it looking like crap for a while and saving up for exactly what you want.
@@SPXLabs Yes very true. For now I have my 3 AP and my dream machine on it's way. I'm going to use a Linksys POE switch to run then. I just need to purchase the all the cable and tools to make them. Running cat6 is good enough right rather then running cat6e. I just want to get my full or close to what I'm paying for on my speed. Before I moved I had cat8 from my router to regular hub and man I was getting speeds over what I was paying for.
It depends on distance. Cat6A can carry 10Gb further than Cat6. I live in a small house so Cat6 works fine. If you have a bigger house then you may need to upgrade to Cat6A
Interesting, how many floors did you run cables through? I was thought it was impossible to run cables once the plaster boards are up.
It’s a single story home. So none.
Outside walls are difficult due to firebreaks in-between the studs. Interior walls are much easier due to no fire breaks between the studs.
Impossible...NOPE there's always a way
@@vincecatapano9020I’m sorry to bring you back to this, but I just bought my first home and I am struggling terribly due to the firebreaks you mentioned, any tips or advise? I would really appreciate it
Where did you buy the white cables from? Plus you have a white longer cable on the right size connect from the dream machine to the switch. What kind of cable is that?
Well I know UniFi sells white bulk cables. I know Monoprice sells bulk cable in a number of colors.
Ambient temp in your closet is 86? Sounds like you need to work HVAC next.
Amen
13:52 I have the same shirt…..I see you 👀
Unfortunately I just left the squad this week.
If I wanted to hire someone to run ethernet cable through the attic. Who would I call?
Most likely an electrician or home theater installer
I know this is a older video, but why didn't you just put your rack in your attic? You would have more room work with and I know for me, my rack is in my basement so I also have room to work around.
It's too hot in the attic for my equipment.
What is that box in your wall that you bring the cables into? It almost looks like an electrical panel box. I need to bring a lot of wires into a closet and tryying to figure out how to do it in an air tight way. thanks
A Structured Wiring Panel or sometimes a Structured Media Panel
At 7:40 is that a complete box or just a ring that holds the outlet cover?
It is not a junction box. It is just a clamp
For reference the a and b standard are just the two ends of a crossover cable. wires 1 and 3 swap places and the same with 2 and 6. This is the change of RX and TX for both NICs. So OW wire is the transmit (-) on one side and will be the receive (-) on the other side. so if you follow, the orange and green pairs are actually the only pairs that transceive data, at least in anything below cat 7 cable. The blue and brown pairs are reserved for other technologies like POTS lines, POE, or technically another data connection, although that's pretty sketchy. You only ever make the crossover cable if you are plugging a computer directly to a router/modem or another computer, switches do this transmit receive flip internally. Although most computers today with fix the transmit receive in software if you are using the wrong cables with a pretty good success rate.
Thanks for all the comments with more information
Where did you get your fiber optic cables? I keep checking Ubiquiti's sight but they don't have any. Also, how do I know if I should get single mode or multi mode? Appreciate your response
store.ui.com/collections/unifi-accessories-cables
Honestly I can’t give you a good answer on how to know when. But I’m very confident there is plenty of information to be pulled from the Google. Sorry
why the blue and orange keystones... and why is there so much stripped wire out of the back of the orange one....
The orange one came with the house. And I just haven’t felt the need to fix it.
You said that was cat6 cable right, not cat 6a, how many runs fit in a single hole and do you know how much bigger 6a is than the 6 you used? I've been thinking of trying to wire my house and figured I'd do 6 wires per plate in each spot then I can change the functionality by moving patch cables in the comm closet.
Yes cat6. I’m not sure how many fit, never thought to count. Cat6a may be thicker but I don’t think it’s big enough to make any real or noticeable difference unless you are engineering something to be built to the micron specification.
I’d say if you are going to go through the effort of wiring, you may as well run the extra cable. Just because it’s ran doesn’t mean you have to use it. So your wall plates can have more or less ports depending on how you feel.
Cat 6a is the same size. It does has a plastic x piece in the middle to better separate the 4 pairs of wires. The issue with 6 keystone plates is getting 6 keystones into it. You need to get ones small enough!!! You can also use a double box and spread out keystones that way. I agree with having more keystones in each area than needed. Because trust me, you’ll end up needing them and don’t want to go back and add more if you don’t have to.
Apparently you shouldn't put the Ubiquiti Wired Access Point on a wall. It needs to be on the ceiling.
My understanding is, it should be mounted according to your desires. So on the ceiling for more range or on a wall for a stronger signal.
I really don‘t get why Cat 7 isn’t used nowadays. Here in Germany we use Cat 7 only since about 5 years.
Well cat7 cable is very expensive and there is no advantage that cat7 offers over cat6 especially at the short distances inside my home.
there is not inherent benefit in a normal sized house other than maybe 100gig network speeds, buts thats already going to be expensive in gear
Are your speeds the same in the other end of the cable? As with the speeds attained where the modem is primarily run.
Yes
@@SPXLabs Great! even with a cat6 cable installation of about 40 metres in length to a separate ADU behind the house...you don't lose speeds at the other end...that's satisfactory
I wish I could do this job myself in my place so I can save money but if I want a good quality and proper working installation job I have to hire a registered data cable installer besides it would be illegal for me to DIY anyway
Ye better dial up for a registered electrician, data and telecommunications cable guy 😅👍
Thanks sir
@@SPXLabs Read (red) some info regarding EMI you ever scan your place for any sign of them like near your Ethernet cables by any chance I don't know how accurate and true I am when I say that EM or electromagnetic can interfere with your Ethernet cables function
Nope never scanned my house for EMI. EMI is not something I am worried about.
Fun fact, you can tell how old a telco engineer is by the standard they impliment. 568A is more boomer generation, although I've seen some government requirements that require 568A but that's because they were originally written 25+ years ago but still used in requirements spec. 🤦♂️🤣
568A is widely used outside of USA.
That’s interesting
@@nismo4x4n that's weird, usually europe and the rest of the world is ahead of us like GSM vs CDMA. GSM was the norm for a long time in europe before it became popular here.
I am 30, live in the US, and have always terminated using 568A standard.. I think it is more or less whichever one you originally decided to cable with and that's the one you stuck with.
Great video.... no awkward comment.
Disappointed with you.
@@SPXLabs about as disappointed as that Mac
That’s it. I’m unsubscribing
@@SPXLabs sorry to ruin your Christmas. I just don't do Mac.
But but
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Are there any chances of getting electric shocked while installing Ethernet? I need to make sure before I do
It probably would. Just don’t plug in the other side while you are making the cables. You could short out the equipment if you leave one end plugged in.
@@SPXLabs ok, thanks, also can I install Ethernet with a pre made cable instead of having to put the connectors on my self? And I wasn't clear when I said chances of getting electric shocked, I meant while in the attic I could get electric shocked?
If it’s a premade cable then you shouldn’t. It’s also low voltage so you won’t die. I’ve never been shocked by Ethernet but I’ve also never had the cables live while working with them.
@@SPXLabs whats bad about a pre made cable though
I didn’t say anything about them being bad
You really should seal all of those cable holes into your attic with fire block foam.
I was looking at that yesterday! Any recommendations on a brand? I may wait a couple of months because I think I’m going to add some cameras around the house
@@SPXLabs I've had good luck with the 3M foam from HD or Lowes.
Sweet! Thanks for looking out!
What if you need to add more cables in the future? Wouldn't the foam make it impossible to run more cables inside the hole sealed by that foam?
The foam is easy to break away but the holes are still too small. It may be a long while before I fill in the holes though.
They carry a four port plate they're all over Amazon
Yes but I’m not spending $12 on a plate when I can just spend a few cents.
Ok
Ok
How much extra does this add to your electric bill
Not sure. I’ve added additional equipment since that video and it costs ¢.77 a day, $23.21 a month, or $282.42 a year in electricity. I use around 248 watts per hour.
2 networking port or adapter first is installed successfully second is not installed or updated
What?
You didn’t include the only part of the video I wanted to see.
I'm dumb but how do you know from wall to attic to ceiling thats why you attic first sorry I'm using wifi now sometimes have to go to my router from my bedroom its all the way across my house for wired ethernet sorry I don't know should I get cat 7 whsts best in heat and cold weather for the attic
I have no idea what you are asking me
@@SPXLabs so everything that goes to the attic goes through the wall correct im trying to do the same thing my bedroom to attic modem room to attic
Yes? Also by the way cat7 isn’t a standard yet and most companies selling cable is just a scam. Just get cat6a.
@@SPXLabs ok thanks and where do you get the clips or connector for the ethernet that you had do I need that to plug in to the ethernet outlet
@@SPXLabs im thinking of getting optic fiber do I just need ethernet lines is the fiber going the lines outside to the outlet that use optic fiber is optic fiber separate then ethernet cable so optic fiber goes like coax cable in a way
You should wear a mask for the attic insulation.
I did
5:20 Also, those cables look strained.
Ugh I know right! Thankfully it doesn’t appear to be an issue at this time. Wish the builder didn’t do that
12:31 u should never leave u pair exposed like that EMI, cross talk
The plastic cover doesn't shield EMI. The twists in the pairs is what prevents crosstalk and EMI. Keep the pairs twisted to within .5" of the punch down.
You will have issues with the cat cables. Cat5e is less forgiving, but when you go to cat6 or higher you will have issues. You don't have 70 degree sweeps on the cables. No right angles. I have seen hundreds of cables fail and signals drop.
I guess we will see what happens. Many of the cables were added by the builder of the house.
Standard issue eye pro 🧐
For the low low price of $150 of course
86 degrees pretty toasty in there
Only a little
@@SPXLabs my dell server fans would definitely be unhappy lol
Lol only a little unhappy. Only hear them half way across the house instead of all the way.
What are use for thermal control
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@@SPXLabs what temperature did you set thermostat for fan to kick in
@@rodneyhenry27 80°F with a 2° buffer so that fans won't always be on even at 80F.
Why does no one run cat8
Because at that point people figure to just use fiber instead. For me though, cat6 is cheap and does 10Gb and I don’t deal with the kind of data Cat8 supports
Correction… it is recommended to run Cat6a or higher to get 10 gig connectivity… especially if using POE. Cat 6 can handle a 10 gig signal.
Cat5e, 6, 6a, 7, and 8 all do 10GbE at different lengths and signal strengths. I am hitting 1GBps with my current cable runs.
Cat6 is not certified for the full 100m for 10G but it can definitely do it with good conditions around 55m. Even Cat5e can do 10G with a couple of meters in length.
FALSE Cat6 will run 10Gb just fine in most normal sized homes...check your facts before spewing lies
@@mrmotofy
You’re right, CAT6 can handle 10g in most normal size homes!!! Now if you have a 20,000 sq foot Mansion, that might be an issue on some of the longer runs.
at the length of cable in a normal one story house cat 6 is plenty for 10gig
The parts that you cut out are the parts I wanted to see. Before/after isn't educational.
Which parts?
you mention a ton of stuff in the intro that would be great to understand your reasons... but `thanks...
This video got way more attention than I thought it would. It was geared towards my 300 subscribers and then the algorithm happened. Sorry
@@SPXLabs no apologies, i just have too much to learn, too many curiosities! 😅
I’m right there with you. Hopefully, at the very least, when you get to a proper channel things will sound more familiar lol.
@@SPXLabs 🤔
LMAO @ UPS on the TV.... Really?
Yeah man. If the power drops in the middle of a movie I can just keep watching! In Florida it was amazing because we could still have something to pass the time during the 4 hour or more outages.
@@SPXLabs Yeah, but now you have a crap load of junk and cheap-n-nasty UPS sitting there. Maybe time to look at a decent power setup with either solar/battery setup in essence, whole house UPS.
I mean it works and I can’t see the mess because it’s behind the tv. I can’t afford solar and/or battery.
In some places it’s fine but ever since I’ve left my childhood home, I’ve had terrible luck.
i hae a pair of strippers i borrowed from my time in the military. they never asked for them back. told me to keep the crimpers in case i do more cables in the base in iraq.
And did you do more cables in iraq?
@@SPXLabs a couple. i wasnt network i t or anything. i did radios. but i worked with the phone and network people.
Neat!
Jealous of you getting to install in a PRISTINE attic. I swear the crap I've seen in attics is insane.
Yeah I feel lucky. That’s why I try not to say, “running cable is easy”. Lol yeah easy for me in a huge attic with room to stand straight up lol
Turned off ,as soon as he started that stupid singing.
Surprised you made it that far to be honest
It's not called a cable runner clod
Well it’s not that big of deal. I’m not a pro just doing my thing