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Networking noob - plz help

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MainMan

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hey guys i'm getting Comcast@home (not my first choice but o'well) and i need to run some cat5e cable though my house to 3 rooms (there's one floor between the hub/switch an the rooms). is jack to jack the best way? so i can just plug the hub to wall then my NIC to the wall. thats the best way right? i think i know what kinda wire to get, Cat.5e 350Mhz UTP Solid Cable, right? are there any sites you could recomend that would help?

thanks in advance
 
actually, wireless is the best way. No cables and no drilling. A floor between where you'll be cabling? How do you propose to pull the cable through the sheetrock?
 
i tryed wireless before and it didn't work very well in my house no matter how much i moved it around, as for how hard it would be to run the wires thats not really a big problem i've looked it over and its not gunna be that tuff. infact that will be the easy part for me, the tuff part will br splicing wires
 


<< is jack to jack the best way? so i can just plug the hub to wall then my NIC to the wall. thats the best way right? i think i know what kinda wire to get, Cat.5e 350Mhz UTP Solid Cable, right? are there any sites you could recomend that would help? >>



yep, jack to jack is the best way. If you don't want to have to go out and buy a punch-down tool to mount the cat5 to the wall jacks, just go to home depot and spend a couple extra bucks for the wall jacks that DON'T need special tools...just a pair of pliers

yeah, that cat5e sounds good.

check out practicallynetworked for some guides and some wiring diagrams...matching the correct colors to the correct pins is very important for proper transfer rates.
 
you won't need to do any splicing so long as you buy enough cable and make sure to pull before you cut... this way you get the proper length rather than trying to guestimate.

have fun.
 
thanks for the advice guys, these sites will help alot. thanks for telling me about those speical wall jacks 🙂 they should save me a lil time (an metal fustration). thanks guys

MainMan
 
one more question about a router if you don't mind if i wanna share my connection through a router do i connect the modem to the router (like this router link )then the hub? do i need a router? or can i just hook the modem up to the hub?
 
You cannot connect the modem to a hub directly, because a hub isn't able to send the datapackages to the right pc's. That's where a router comes in. If you want to connect more pc's to the internet with the cablemodem you definitely need a router. With the router from your link, you also need a hub, even better a switch. The Modem will have to connect to the WAN port, the switch or hub to the LAN port.

On that site I saw another router with a built-in switch, that makes everything easier.
The Modem connects to your WAN port, 4 ports to connect to your pc's and the uplinkport can be used to connect an extra switch or hub. If that's the case, one of the 4 ports will probably be unusable. But you can make a chain of switches, linking from uplink to port, uplink to port and so on.

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You could even do it a bit overdone: 😀😀

pc1 near the router connecting to port 1
cable from router port 2 to uplinkport from a switch in room1
cable from router port 3 to uplinkport from a switch in room2
cable from router port 4 to uplinkport from a switch in room3

With the switches in every room connected to the router, you could even connect more pc's in every room! (Which is detrimental to your surfing speed, when everything is online at the same time.)
 
Yeah, if you want to connect more than 1 computer you'll need a router or some type of internet sharing software on a server computer.
 
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