House wiring

[rsutoratosu]

So my whole house it lit. I ran the cables in 2007 when I moved in. CAT5e in the beginning, slowly move to CAT6 in new areas. Blowing out walls and beginning construction. I'm prepping for a 75" 4k tv so I figure I go see whats out there..

CAT 6a & CAT7, $250 for CAT6a bulk and $550 for CAT7 bulk.

Anyone ran these in the house ? I'm thinking I should just run CAT6 and when CAT7 drops in prices I can always put those in.

 

[imagoon]

So my whole house it lit. I ran the cables in 2007 when I moved in. CAT5e in the beginning, slowly move to CAT6 in new areas. Blowing out walls and beginning construction. I'm prepping for a 75" 4k tv so I figure I go see whats out there..

CAT 6a & CAT7, $250 for CAT6a bulk and $550 for CAT7 bulk.

Anyone ran these in the house ? I'm thinking I should just run CAT6 and when CAT7 drops in prices I can always put those in.

Nope, no reason to at home. Mostly only use 6a in the datacenter, 7 only for high speed links. It is a complete pita to terminate and have it pass on a tester.

 

[alkemyst]

Nope, no reason to at home. Mostly only use 6a in the datacenter, 7 only for high speed links. It is a complete pita to terminate and have it pass on a tester.

QFT

 

[rsutoratosu]

I was looking into transmitting hdmi 2 - when its out from room to room.. being that hdmi 2 goes up to 18Gbps, this is probably something that I might need when the time comes. I probably wont put it in now but its good to look in to it and prep. We use hdmi transmitter at work, not sure if its the crappy wiring job or the crappy transmitter, there are some pixilation.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I'd just stick to cat6. Isin't 6a and 7 still considered "draft"? So the standard could potentially change. Probably rare odds though.

Cat6 will give you gigabit, with ability to go 10g for short distance. Typically between workstations and other end devices gigabit is more than enough. Heck I bought a cheap 10/100 managed switch as I was starting to run out of ports on my gig and there's lot of drops around the house I moved to 10/100 as that's all I need, such as the htpc. 10g is nice to have between servers/switches but that can be done later down the line. The equipment (switches and nics) is still too expensive now.

 

[rsutoratosu]

yeah, they are but i would just house the from work.. you know for research purposes.. hahah..

 

[imagoon]

Well here is the thing, to get Cat6a and the Cat7 to work, you will need something like a fluke meter to test the runs. The signalling rules are so tight that = RJ45 end on the cable = auto fail. You must terminate it on keystones / patch panels that are rated for those ratings and make sure to terminate the shields properly on 7 or you can end up with a fire hazard.

 

[rsutoratosu]

yeah instead of wasting massive money on cat 7, ill do 6a. i have a fluke but its not the 12k one to test this. i might borrow a meter from someone at work if its available..

 

[alkemyst]

yeah, they are but i would just house the from work.. you know for research purposes.. hahah..

stealing from work is not cool.

 

[rsutoratosu]

its for research purposes my boss knows, when he vid conf me on the tangberg i took home to research he was like u have that and he sees all the stuff behind me