Cat5e supports gigabit and it's significantly cheaper and easier to
terminate than cat6.
Regarding Dafydd's question,
Likely what the builder did is pull one cat5 cable per room and use half
the conductors for each RJ11 (phone) jack. It's a cheap thing to do but
quite common.
Remove the two screws holding the faceplate on and see for yourself. If
there's only one cable you will only be able to do one RJ45 connector
which means you'll have to choose between phone and network in each
room. Also, before you bother buying face plates etc, read the cable to
make sure it's at least category 5 UTP. If it's category 3 cable you
will only want to use that for phone.
If you're feeling adventurous, try to run some cable yourself. You can
buy a 300 meter box of decent cat5e for around $70. The face plates
usually come with a plastic punch down tool good enough to do a few with
so no special tools will be required.
Dafydd Crosby wrote:
If you can afford it, you may even want to look into Cat 6 cabling,
since gigabit devices are starting to become standard...
-Dafydd
Chris q wrote:
Hi,
I'm looking for someone to wire my house with cat5. Theoretically, I
should have two cat 5 cables behind all my phone face plates, but the
builders only put on face plates with a phone connecter. I think all I
need done is a changing of the face plate to a dual phone jack cat 5.
There's probably 3 face plates in total.
Thanks,
Chris
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