Rebuilding the telenet in the house to ethernet is a pretty easy task. Long process however since there is always parts missing, just think about the end result. Even though there was no ethernet
in the house when I moved in. I’m a pretty lucky guy. I got fibre in the
house from ISP and Tele jacks pretty much everywhere (even in the
garage!!!…why?).In other words, it should be a pretty/relativly painless rebuild.
Hardware used so far:
* 8p patch panel from Lindy.
* Cisco SG200-08
* 100m CAT5e cable
* Modular tool (cutting and making cables)
* Cable tester
* Punch down tool (to connect ethernet to patch panel)
* Some other shit like TP-connectors, tape.
First off, I located the connection point for all tele in the hallway, so here is where the the ethernet connection point will be as well.
Then it was just to start in some end and hope that the 100m cable will be enough. You can see here how I use the old 2-wire tele cable to help the ethernet through the walls. The maximum cables you can have (ethernet) is 2xUTP or 1xSTP. I don’t see the point with STP so i went off with Cat5e UTP since it’s very cheap, bought mine for 20€/100m.
Above is the server room. Since my main location for the telenet is in the hallway I will only use a uplink from the server room. No problem with 1Gbps.
The cables starting to come out from the main jack in the hallway.
Got the 8p wall ethernet box from ebay for about €25, the make is “Lindy” and quality very good (=easy to connect wires with punch down tool). If you go budget-mode you don’t need this box, but it makes it just better. As switch I use the Cisco SG200-08 smart switch since it has good configuration options as VLAN. My hop is that I can drive this via PoE from the server room, but I havn’t tried this yet, more info when I do.
This is what it looks like from underneath. You can see the cables coming out from underneath the wall box that can’t be seen from a normal perspective, aka. if you don’t crawl on the floor.
So, what have we learned so far?
* Find the main jack and use that as the central ethernet point.
* Use UTP-cable since you can use 2 paralell ethernet instead of 1 tele cable.
* Use the old tele cables as help for leading ethernet trough walls.
* Have patience!
Hardware used so far:
* 8p patch panel from Lindy.
* Cisco SG200-08
* 100m CAT5e cable
* Modular tool (cutting and making cables)
* Cable tester
* Punch down tool (to connect ethernet to patch panel)
* Some other shit like TP-connectors, tape.
First off, I located the connection point for all tele in the hallway, so here is where the the ethernet connection point will be as well.
Then it was just to start in some end and hope that the 100m cable will be enough. You can see here how I use the old 2-wire tele cable to help the ethernet through the walls. The maximum cables you can have (ethernet) is 2xUTP or 1xSTP. I don’t see the point with STP so i went off with Cat5e UTP since it’s very cheap, bought mine for 20€/100m.
Above is the server room. Since my main location for the telenet is in the hallway I will only use a uplink from the server room. No problem with 1Gbps.
The cables starting to come out from the main jack in the hallway.
Got the 8p wall ethernet box from ebay for about €25, the make is “Lindy” and quality very good (=easy to connect wires with punch down tool). If you go budget-mode you don’t need this box, but it makes it just better. As switch I use the Cisco SG200-08 smart switch since it has good configuration options as VLAN. My hop is that I can drive this via PoE from the server room, but I havn’t tried this yet, more info when I do.
This is what it looks like from underneath. You can see the cables coming out from underneath the wall box that can’t be seen from a normal perspective, aka. if you don’t crawl on the floor.
So, what have we learned so far?
* Find the main jack and use that as the central ethernet point.
* Use UTP-cable since you can use 2 paralell ethernet instead of 1 tele cable.
* Use the old tele cables as help for leading ethernet trough walls.
* Have patience!
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