Wiring an Office Network
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 พ.ย. 2015
- This 15 min video walks you through the basic step you need to do to install the wiring, the jacks, and the patch panel for a small office Ethernet Network..
It is explained in plain, non-technical language so that any lay-person could grasp the ideas and techniques.
Near the end, testing is also explained. Testing is important so you don't get frustrated when connecting computers. You need to know your cable is tested and that it is not the cause of any problems.
Here's a summary of what happens in this video:
1. explanation of the cable runs from the central location to the data outlet locations.
2. the installation of the wall jacks
3. the termination of the cables to the patch panel
4. wire management and mounting of patch panel
5. Testing of cables for correct numbering and validation of connectivity.
Materials you will need:
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Categorie 5e or 6 UTP (Unshielded twisted pari) cable
RJ-45 modular inserts (aka data jacks)
Wall plates with RJ-45 hole
12, 14, or 48 port patch panel
Network cabinet or 19" wall bracket (for panel)
Caddy-clip drywall mud rings.
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Hi, i work as a network engineer in one service provider company, we use field technicians to support our L1 installations, i never have a chance to experience onsite installations from behind the computer display (supporting only L2 and L3), so i would like to say thank you for this experience and other ones provided in your videos. :)
You're quite welcome. :-)
it's pretty awesome stuff to see a data centre or telco rack being installed. From a bare hunk of metal to cable runs, dressing the rack with various hardware and powering up the equipment. When you go online and hit "Google" I still get that warm fuzzy feeling :-)
+Andrew Carr indeed
wawu das wonderful
Great video man.
I am a network engineer and what you are doing now is how I began in IT. Your work is where it all begins and essential to the whole setup.
Brought back memories of having to use the "fish sticks" and going through some weird places in some old buildings in SF just to reach the MPOE
Keep it up brother.
appreciate it sir. Wish I didn't have to still pull cable, but that the life of a contractor.
Thanks for commenting! :-)
I recently started wiring my house house up with cat6. It was made in the 50s and when pulling cables through the attic I noticed it was littered with ancient bits of telephone cables and old mating blocks. And I wasn't upset, it was more interesting than anything.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that in the year 2040 when someone finds some old cat5 twisted pairs in the wall there's a pretty good chance they'll just smile and remember how things used to be while they're putting in fancy new optical-to-the-desk wall plates (that still terminate differently from vendor to vendor because some things never change).
Ah ha ha ha... interesting perspective, Mike. I think that way too. Good luck with your project! 😁
Lol I wathed this and thought: did he really just used that hole as a trashcan? Continued watching and laughed when you mentioned it. Nice vid.
+Tom V. Thanks. You know what is so funny Tom, is that one little event is responsible for about half the comments left on this video. I don't think I could have planned something more effective for boosting the popularity. :-)
nice one, Mike Tyson.
Satellite and internet techs do it as well.
@@NetworkAdvisor hey
@@phuctwitt9096 It is all very similar careers.
Awesome video...easy to understand...no fluff...nicely done!
Just do not apply any simple mistake you have seen and appreciate the knowledge the Vlogger has shared to us. Thanks Network Advisor!
You are tops! I am teaching myself to punch down a patch panel I purchased along with a roll of cable and cable making kit. I'm sure I will get there with your help. Rock on NA!!!
This is a great video. I do tech support over the phone and so it's great to see the physical networking side of things for once. Extremely helpful. Thank you!
Thanks for the feedback Garrison. 👍😊
The cover caps are needed no matter if you do the wiring right or not. They are made to keep the dust out of the connections. If you do not it will cause static in your lines then it will cause data loss as to slower speeds. Just like in an old turn dial radio that has not been used for a while. When you turn the volume up and down you get SNAP CRACKLE POP. That is caused by dust between the plates of the volume control. Great video, keep up the great work.
very well explained with a practical example. Thank you!
Excellent video ..and really really helpful, thanks !!! your install looks very professional
I really appreciate this video. I'll probably watch it multiple times
Nice video. altough i already know most of the information, staying a bit up to date with what other people do is always nice. Youre one of the few videos i actuallywatch from start to end
+7249xxl well, that's quite a compliment. Thanks you! :-)
Network Advisor dont mention it. Youre not shitting about yiu just do your work and explain why you do it the way you do. Thats natural teaching
great vid, explained well. thanks
+NikoPrimitif thanks for the feedback.
I understand 100% why you toss the rubbish in the wall, but it hurts my OCD ;)
thankyou for the video, that service loop is a very good idea that I will use :)
Nice video and some good info, I have had problems mounting equipment in racks that the drop cables "service loop" is in the way. A better alternative is to keep the loop at the very top of the cage and utilize the space behind the patch panel and not to tie it to the back rails.
Really glad I came across this video. Very well explained and easy to understand..
thanks for the feedback. Just glad I can help people out.
Very useful. Many thanks. Do a lot of configuration but never actually made the cable runs. Now I want to expand the network in my home and plan to do it myself this time.
Good deal Dominic. I don't think I mentioned it, but a good place to buy reliable materials (jacks, cable, patch panel) is monoprice dot com. I don't have any incentive to recommend them. Just saying.
Good luck! :-D
When people picking on how u threw the wire, but I think your whole video is just awesome!
Thanks Derek. It's ok about the criticism. The internet world is loaded with trolls. I'm so glad so many people are being helped by the information I am providing.
Thanks for commenting! :-)
i viewed lots o f videos but yours is very detailed VERY VERY detailed..Thanks! learned a lot !!
Excellent video. Get yourself a 'Cyclops' cable stripper - really cool bit of kit that I use every day. 🙂
Hmmm. Have to check it out. Thanks for the heads up. 🤔
Hey man I noticed something with your service loop. I was at an office one day with severe water damage from a construction site one floor above. Basically the floor above was completely flooded over night due to a main water pipe that broke unnoticed. So lots of water came down to that office from the sealing and their network infrastructure was destroyed. Water was slowly running along those Cat cables directly into the patch panels at the top of their racks and then dripped on all the switches, servers, telephone system and their router below. Having a service loop like that probably would have saved some of those devices. So this is a pretty cool idea for several reasons 👍
Oh great point. That’s definitely something I worry about with Outside plant cable as they traverse from outdoors to inside. I have to say that in many years of installing infrastructure, I’ve only run into water events twice. And in both cases, they only affected one outlet. Thanks for pointing that out! 😊
@@NetworkAdvisor Indeed it is rare. But when it happens, its bad haha
Totally awesome. The book does not teach this. THANK YOU!
Thanks Gia. Glad I could provide an extra perspective. 😊
😅I enjoyed watching this video from start to end. Very informative . Especially the part where I learnt to throw the little pieces of wire inside the dry wall instead of the trash can 😅
Hi Vincent. Thanks for watching! 😃
Great video, really enjoy 👍
Nice video, was relaxing to watch. Those keystone jacks seem very well made. I was like everyone and spotted you dumping the cut offs inside the wall. End of the day no one is going to see it, and it's expected of all workmen ha.
Personally I'd just carry a small bag with me and dump them in there. You never know when someone seeing you be that little bit more professional could help, but end of the day it's not a game changing issue, it's more of a personal thing.
I love the keystone jacks and if you have the money to do Belden installations you'll love them even more, about 1/2 the time to install and punch down, and they have a handy dandy automatic crimping tool for the pros.
Thanks for the video, great job. Quick question, approximately how much does someone charge for a small office cable drop?
Thanks.
Good Job Sir, thanks for uploading. Really helped a lot.
You are genius, man. I like the way you show how it is done. Thumbs up!
+Huanyu Liu wonderful, thank you for the compliment. My pleasure to help!
This was very helpful. I'm a student and have a big project on how a company lan is actually done so I found this very helpful.
That’s great. Good luck! 😊
I got some nice tips from your video, thank you!
Awesome, I'd love to do this one day and I wanna be prepared
xFlow - you mean do this for a living (network engineer)? Or, just install a network?
Thank you for uploading this video 👍🏽
Thank you for taking the time to make this video. It was informative and helpful and I appreciate you taking the time to show how something like this is done.
How difficult is fishing the wire through the walls?
Jake, fishing cable through walls can be not-too-bad if the wall is hollow. However, if there is insulation or horizontal trusses, it can get very frustrating.
I love this video! It was very well put together. Thanks for sharing! Subscribed.....
+LV Cable Technologies - Aaron Davis thanks Aaron. Appreciate the feedback. If you have a channel, tell us about it here.
Network Advisor Sure. It was just created a few days ago and I only have one video so far.......looking forward to posting many more soon.
I do cabling in many cities of Los Angeles County. I haven't gotten into installs yet. I pretty much terminate and do cable management as a subcontractor.
My channel is titled the same as my name:
LV Cable Technologies.
Thanks for asking!
OMG...I cannot BELIEVE some of these comments! Ranging from where he throws the cable shavings (which is more common than people think) to where he installs the cabinet...HE DID AN ABSOLUTELY PROFESSIONAL JOB!!!
+Garden of Grey well, I’ll take the appreciation where I can get it!!
Thank you very much. :-)
Great Video with lot of information within perfect amount of time.
Thanks Raj. Yep, I know when I go looking for information, I want quick & easy. Don't bore me with a lot of background information. :)
Nice vid, appropriate pace and helpful shooting technique. I guess a GoPro has been used! Thanks a lot.
Lol most of those comments are about dumping useless stuff into that hole while probably no one will never ever care about. So im gonna comment about the knowledge he shared for free - thank you sir! Thats a nice piece of advice for people with releated questions. Again, thank you!
I rarely leave comments unless I'm trolling, but thank you for making this video and this entire channel. I am a very new IT field technician and your content helps me to grow and understand. Subscribed because you rock!
Great, glad I could help. If you're an up and coming IT pro, you might like my other channel too - DIY Telecom th-cam.com/users/DIYTelecom
Good luck! :-D
SampleTextLensFlare plz don't listen or follow anything this hack is showing he doesn't know what he's doing.
Robo, this simplest way to get into this business is call a small, local Telecom or Network installation business and as them if they need help pulling cable. Once you start there, if you show some initiative, you can go pretty far without ever setting foot in a classroom. Most of what we learn is "on the job training". Good luck. :)
absolutely true, if you show abilities to learn this way the work will follow.
I laughed when you threw the cut cable into the wall, clearly you've been doing this for a while, so props to you. I've encountered so many situations where there is no service loop, ever try punching down on a 48 port patch with no wiggle room to pull the patch out? Pain in the ass! Hopefully people watch this and pick up good habits
Oh man, Chris. Have I ever been there with you. Obviously, you get it. And you're trying to make changes in a data cabinet with no slack you're like "OK, what was the guy who put this in thinking?"
Really appreciated the feedback and comments!
I suppose the simplest solution in a situation like that would be to test the cable, cut it back, and patch it into a keystone jack. It will introduce another point of error and be a bit messy, but a lot faster than running a new cable (depending on distance of course). Although, it would have been far easier for the installer to leave a few feet of service cable.
Possibly the same guy who put the trash in his pocket. Clean floor but poor installation :-)
excellent video. I personally omit that patch-panel part whenever possible, it reduces one point of failure. I rather connect cables directly to switches. It really helped me a lot to find problems in network.
not me...I find that using a patch panel is far better for cable termination, organization, testing, and professionalism...I have yet to see a corporation who had cable runs directly connected to their interface appliances, but I can respect your way as well as understand where you are coming from...I'm from the "old-school" way...
We used that setup (direct patch cable between the server and switch) at one of my previous jobs. Unfortunately, they would not let us terminate the patch cables to the correct length. We had to purchase pre-made patch cabling to connect the servers to the switches and a lot of times we would end up with a bunch of slack if the cable was too long, which was a cable management nightmare. You measured the distance the cable has to cover and try to get one with the length closest to what you need.
It depended on what you had in storage. If a 30 foot cable is too short and the next size up you have in storage is a 50 foot, you have to use that and then figure out where you are going to stow the excess. Of course you can order more cables closer to the length you need, but since management wants this done yesterday, you use what you have on hand. Fiber cabling the same way.
Thanks for the video. Very useful.
brings hella memories back
Excellent Video! Thxs!
I like how you tossed the trash into the outlet! :P
Spoke too soon lol. I agree with you, too. :D
thank you! there's a big difference between what you learn (lab, apprenticeship, tech school) versus what you do in the field when you've been doing this for ages.
That is what the hole in the wall is made for lol I do that same thing 90% of the time.
Isn't that how you do insulation?
I thought it was spare parts?
Same difference.
thank you so much.this tutorial is very helpful
Thanks for the explanation and paying attention to explaining the details, I'm fan of networking and wiring and all but bit skittish when it comes to terminating cables.
+Zeze Andjr we've all been there at one time. Your first few terminations will be crappy. Just accept it.
😀
Should we run separate cable for telephone/ HDMI?
Thanks for the video.
Excelente video
Thank you for a great explanation.
It all makes sense now :D
WHen you see it all kinda laid out from start to finish, it helps you get that's its not so mysterious, right? :-)
@@NetworkAdvisor @ yes that is so true. :)
Excelente video ,Thank you
cableado perfeto.buena navegacion sin contratiempos
saludos tu mam.
That's how you address the trolls! Good one. And thanks for an informative video.
Great and very detailed video !
+Denesha Miles thanks for the feedback! :-)
God bless you my friend! Amazing video! I do feel sorry for your arm having to hold the camera and doing this single handed!
+Ainul Ahmed thank you. Actually, the camera was mounted on my head for most of that video. :-)
I toss it in the wall to, doing over 200+ and picking/sweeping up after your done is a lot more work. Nice and neat 👍👍
ahhh.... someone who gets it. Thanks for chiming-in. And, thanks for watching! :)
I may have missed it but just to verify did you use a tone probe to identify each wire when you connecting your cables? Just wondering.
Great video. I got 1 question. If i want the same setup to also supply internet to all the rooms, will it work in same cable? Or i need to do separate wiring.?
One of the best well-explained videos I have seen in a long time :) Thank you ... I've got a few questions to ask though.... why the white cable ? is that for the telephone line ?
Exactly right Idris. This installation had specific instructions that I should use blue cable for the data and white cable for the Telephone lines. When you do contracted installations for other companies, you'll find that's a common requirement to use certain cable colors.
Thanks for the compliments. I think the video has helped out a lot of people and that's been rewarding. :)
C'est une vidéo très instructive. J'aime/ I like this video. thats verry good
he real professional no time to waste and if you guys dont know theres already trash in there that makes no difference
thanks Jose. Anyone who does this work as much as I do gets it. Every industry has dirty little secrets that the consumers would be appalled if they knew about.
thanks for commenting 😄
Good stuff bro am learning all of this stuff.
Wonderful. Thanks for chiming in. 😄
Thanks for adding
was there a special technique you used to run the cable to each room? And do you do if the room is far away?
@NetworkAdvisor , Awesome video!!! Thank you. Question... do you know why the T568B wiring pattern displayed on the patch panel you used (BR,WBR,G,WG,O,WO,B,WB) doesn't actually match up (in order from left to right) with the T568B wiring pattern used in general for the connectors? (WO,O,WG,B,WB,G,WBR,BR) Is this common with all patch panels? To be different? I mean, If it's T568B, why would they not just follow the same left to right color wiring pattern order... as we've learned it in general? Just curious... as I'm trying to learn.
Right. Funny, I never realized how that might be confusing to someone not familiar.
So with patch panels you almost always punch down pairs in color order (blue, orange, green, brown). What you don't see is that the 568B mapping is happening between the punch and the gold pins in the front. It's not a one-for-one mapping front to back. Hope that makes sense? 😄
THANKS man, this is helpful
Thanks a lot. It's a great video.
Same thing I do in my voice data class!! Great video
wow, that's quite a compliment. Thanks! :-D
Great video sir! Thanks for sharing. People making negative comments about you tossing a few wires in the wall.......come on folks. Really?
Thanks Aaron! It's ok, the downers are always out there. I'd be willing to be donuts though that many of those posting negative things are not independent telecom contractors. If they realized how tough it was to make a buck out there as an independent, then they would appreciate why every shortcut you can take is vital. Best of luck to you. Thanks for commenting! :-D
Hi, is there any specific order you need to follow when mounting equipment inside the rack cabinet? I usually see UPS backup battery mounted at the bottom, whereas main router is usually mounted up the top, what about rest - for instance; server, NAS, patch panel, switches, IP phone server, KVM console, NVR recorder, etc.? Should you leave some space between them to avoid overheating? Thanks for explaining the basic stuff with cable management - I also don't like to walk to the trash can over and over :)
the only reason you mount the ups at the bottom is because its the heaviest item in the rack. you dont need to leave space between them.
I also like how you dispose of the garbage.
I love your video! Great Job!
Thank you Michael. 😊
Excellent work
Awesome! Love it. Thank you.
Appreciate the feedback, Stephen. 😊
Where did you buy your RJ pigtails you plug into your cable tester at the end of your video to check continuity??
I believe I gothem on Monoprice website. I get most of my supplies from them (or HomeDepot)
This helped lots thanks dude
I did this stuff day in and day out like you do. I always kept a clean work space. If one day if the GC catches you doing this shit, then he will probably let you know how disrespectful it is.
I noticed on the punch-downs for the patch panel that you had a moderate length of wire untwisted, cable side (at least on the close up of that first one anyway). Has that ever led to any cross-talk issues / how much untwisted length can you have before it becomes a problem? Thanks for the vid, it was informative.
tank you teacher ,really i need you ,thanks a lot of your tutorial
Glad I could help. Thanks for the feedback.
thanks very helpful since im in intership at the moment.
Good for you then! Soak up as much as you can and then pick a specialty. The IT field can be quite overwhelming when viewed as a whole. Specialization is where the successful career path is! :-)
You might find this of interest: th-cam.com/video/Rt3TBqChhFM/w-d-xo.html
It's a new video series I've started for people considering a career as a Network-Telecom technician.
Awesome video thanks
Upload more videos like this please!
Thank you so much for this video. One question: what was the white cable coming out of the wall?
That white cable was also a Category 5e (network grade) cable. Because this location wanted an analog voice port at each jack location, I used white as a visual indicator for the voice cables.
@@NetworkAdvisor I thought so! Thanks so much for replying and thanks for all these videos!!!!! You’re amazing. 🙂
Very Knowledgable and helpful..!!!
Great video thanks
Thank you sir from Ogadenia
This looks like fun!
Awesome video sir!
hey thanks Rommel. Glad I could help. :-)
What's the white cable for? I don't see any white cables going to the wire cabinet(central location).
I like ur video of wiring network. really its helpful for beginner...
that's great to hear. Glad I could help. :-)
First of thanks to reply
Actually I m new in this professional
So I need help how to connect patch panel,WLC n LIU
If you're a new IT / Network / IT professional, you might like my other youtube channel
th-cam.com/users/diytelecom
great video thanks for share
Thanks for the feedback. :-)
excellent tutorial. thank you
Great, thanks for the feedback. :-)
Dude you make great videos. I am currently taking my Cisco 1 course and a unix linux certification course and this gives me a good idea of what I will be doing in the work force
good for you. CCNA is a great way to get your foot in the door with IT/Telecom/Network companies. I hear people say Cisco is old and tired. But, regardless, IOS command line is still the gold standard!
Good luck! :-)
Thanks 😊, So much.
I hope you Successfully always, InshAllah.
Thank you Sarmad. 😊
Great Vid, well done....Thank You
Thanks for the feedback, Richard. 😊
Nice video - Thank you!
you're welcome. Thanks for posting. Hope it helps.
Thanks 😊❤️😘 for making a helpful video.
Thank you for letting me know you found it helpful 😃
very informative and simplified
Appreciate it!
Great tutorial thx for the vid.
you're quite welcome. thanks for the feedback :)