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Hey all!

I am wiring 10 rooms in a renovated house for a network connection.

The are a total of 4 floors, but the homeowner wants wireless on 2 floors with perfect signal.

I am trying to not forget anything.

He ordered 1000ft of cat5e already.

This is the list off the top of my head:

16 port patch panel.
16 port switch.
Router (linksys maybe?)
2 access points.


This is the list of bigger things.

I'm not including RJ45 conenctors or wall plates, etc...

Do you see anything I'm missing.

I have a ton of things on my mind about other jobs I'm working on and keep crossing my lists from house to house.

Thanks!

EDIT:

This house is a rent property and anything that wanks in should be able to plug in and go.
 
I have to ask this part first, the owner of the house is doing this, not the people who are renting it right? If the latter, there maybe legal troubles for the renter.
 
You may be able to get away with 1 WAP based on the location at which you place it and the size of the property, but it sound like you have everything you need.

Wall Jacks?
 
dx2 said:
a quality crimper and punch down tool.
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I second that, and a wiring guide :D
Also when do you pull the wires, label them so you know whats going where.
Are you going to do wall plates? or how are you going to set them up?
 
Xipher said:
Umm, you just wrote it in 2 different ways? I don't think you should worry about the case of one little e.
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I can't find the sources right now, but a month or so ago my cabling guy was talking about this. Big "e" (E) is gigabit capable while little "e" (e) is not.
 
protias said:
I can't find the sources right now, but a month or so ago my cabling guy was talking about this. Big "e" (E) is gigabit capable while little "e" (e) is not.
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I think you should find sources, because I have never heard of that before, and I can tell you that we are running Gig over Cat5 cable and have never heard of 2 different specifications depending on weather it is a big E or little e concerning cat5e (E). I sited the 802.3ab (gigabit over copper) specification. Did he ask you to go get the cable strecher in the same sentence? ;)
 
The owner of the home is having the work done. Not the renters.

I have so many things going on right now I need to ask these questions because I most likely will forget to order materials, etc...

I am doing wallplates, yes.

The cat5e is alreadhy on location, he got a spool for free where he works.....St. Rose college.
 
Carp said:
The owner of the home is having the work done. Not the renters.

I have so many things going on right now I need to ask these questions because I most likely will forget to order materials, etc...

I am doing wallplates, yes.

The cat5e is alreadhy on location, he got a spool for free where he works.....St. Rose college.
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Very Cool, have to get some pictures up soon
 
when wiring floors/rooms/wallplates, make sure to drop an extra line or two of cat5 for expansion and/or mistakes.
 
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