Hello,
I just helped a friend wire his new house for both video (RG6) and Network/phone (Cat5e). Each room has generally two wallplates on opposite sides of the room. Each wall plate has 2 RG6 and 2 Cat5e taped together and tied to the outlet box. I made sure to be on opposite side of the stud when there's an electrical outlet. All my cabling avoids the 220v lines and only cross any other electrical line at 90 degree angles. Since the electrician and plumber already passed by before I did my wiring, I made new holes to pass my cables. The ends are unterminated, I'm waiting for the sheetrock guys to pass by before I install the finished wall plates (I carefully hid the wires between the studs and left a pull cord tied to the metal box). All the cables (14 RG6 and 14 Cat5e) all come down to the basement in the utility room. All the cat5e cables are bundled together loosely and the same for the coax. Now, I couldn't leave the bundles between the studs (they are too large) so I installed a box (O shaped) and put all the wires (tapped toghether) through the box. Now hopefully when the sheetrock guys come and do the basement walls, they will carefully cut out the hole for the box and pass the two sets of wires throught the holes. Now I want to know if this is standard practice or eventhough the bundle of cable is huge, you still leave between the studs. I didn't want to do that because it would be very hard to pull the bundle out of the wall. After the walls are in, I'll be installing a patch panel for the Cat5e, that's not the problem. I want to know if there are any "patch panels" for video (Please show me pictures with links). Am I forced to terminate each coax cable and plug it directly an amplifier with multiple outputs directly ? Or use 6 port face plates and use barrel connectors that insert into the faceplates ? I prefer using patch panels, the job is more neat and easier for reconfiguration.
Since we spent two days and 2000 feet of wiring, we want to make everything nice. We took pictures of our work and will be putting it somewhere online so you guys can take a look and offer suggestions. I welcome any comment because I want to learn. If everything goes well, we will wire the houses of our friends also.
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I just helped a friend wire his new house for both video (RG6) and Network/phone (Cat5e). Each room has generally two wallplates on opposite sides of the room. Each wall plate has 2 RG6 and 2 Cat5e taped together and tied to the outlet box. I made sure to be on opposite side of the stud when there's an electrical outlet. All my cabling avoids the 220v lines and only cross any other electrical line at 90 degree angles. Since the electrician and plumber already passed by before I did my wiring, I made new holes to pass my cables. The ends are unterminated, I'm waiting for the sheetrock guys to pass by before I install the finished wall plates (I carefully hid the wires between the studs and left a pull cord tied to the metal box). All the cables (14 RG6 and 14 Cat5e) all come down to the basement in the utility room. All the cat5e cables are bundled together loosely and the same for the coax. Now, I couldn't leave the bundles between the studs (they are too large) so I installed a box (O shaped) and put all the wires (tapped toghether) through the box. Now hopefully when the sheetrock guys come and do the basement walls, they will carefully cut out the hole for the box and pass the two sets of wires throught the holes. Now I want to know if this is standard practice or eventhough the bundle of cable is huge, you still leave between the studs. I didn't want to do that because it would be very hard to pull the bundle out of the wall. After the walls are in, I'll be installing a patch panel for the Cat5e, that's not the problem. I want to know if there are any "patch panels" for video (Please show me pictures with links). Am I forced to terminate each coax cable and plug it directly an amplifier with multiple outputs directly ? Or use 6 port face plates and use barrel connectors that insert into the faceplates ? I prefer using patch panels, the job is more neat and easier for reconfiguration.
Since we spent two days and 2000 feet of wiring, we want to make everything nice. We took pictures of our work and will be putting it somewhere online so you guys can take a look and offer suggestions. I welcome any comment because I want to learn. If everything goes well, we will wire the houses of our friends also.
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