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Want to wire my house with CAT6

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So I bought my first house and now I want to wire it up for Gigabit ethernet. I looked at monoprice for wall jacks but I was hoping I could find a wall jack that is just a female to female adapter so I dont have to do any cutting. For now I just want to network the two computers in the office to the HT in the living room. HT right now just includes a Samsung LCD, PS3, Wii, and a small Onkyo stereo. Planning to soon have full surround sound and eventually be able to play different music in every room in the house.
So where can I get what I need? I currently have a 4-port gigabit switch.
 
There's a franchise store called 'Graybar' that mainly sells to installation contractors for phone / network supplies. They have basically everything you'd need, though the prices are not at all 'discount', more like wholesale, so maybe cheaper than the inflated prices you might find at ACE hardware but more expensive than you'd likely find at monoprice or whatever.

Also check Lowes, Home Depot, et. al. that sort of stuff is pretty standard fare for interior remodel projects these days and I'm sure they'd have a good selection.

For an inexpensive set of accessories look at a local Fry's electronics if you have one, they may have spools of wire, punch down tools, outlet receptacles / jacks, et. al. at not too horrible prices; probably about the same as Graybar with less selection.

IIRC there's a site cablestogo or something like that that had some stuff too.

 
No Fry's here. I checked Home Depot and Lowe's. Could not find anything at Home Depot and Lowes had a very limited selection of supplies.
Thanks for the link to the inline coupler, I could not find that on their site.
 
Home Depot probably won't have much but Lowes should have EVERYTHING you need minus a good gigabit switch. I bought keystone jacks, wiring and wall plates there for my install.
 
Originally posted by: kevnich2
Home Depot probably won't have much but Lowes should have EVERYTHING you need minus a good gigabit switch. I bought keystone jacks, wiring and wall plates there for my install.
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My local Home Depot had a better selection of networking accessories than my local Lowes. But prices are so high at these places (e.g. $10 for a CAT6 keystone jack, $5 for CAT5e) that it's mainly for if you're in a pinch and need it right now.
 
As tested with small peer-to peer networks, they work OK

For the long run? I do not know these are relatively new product.
 
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