Today we are finally running Cat6 Ethernet around the house inside the walls and installing ethernet jacks. While this did take some considerable effort, running network cable around the house is totally worth it. We ran cable to the home office so I could have additional network drops in there, as well as added network drops into the living room. Our switch is POE capable and it will be able to power our wireless access point, so that is one less cable we need for our WiFi equipment.

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Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:43 Office Overview
02:57 Living Room Overview
03:41 Network Closet Overview
04:29 Attic Time
05:08 Drilling Holes for Cables
06:10 Above Office Drilling
07:01 Fishing Cable in the Office
10:21 Stripping in the Office
11:11 Network Patch Panel
11:27 Finished Look of the Office
11:56 Drilling above the Living Room
12:10 Fishing Cables from Server Room
12:16 Behind the TV
12:44 Finished Look at our Work
13:20 Conclusion


We did chose to forgot Cat7 and Cat8 ethernet because my home is only 2000sq ft. So cat6 will still be able to provide 10GbE to pretty much every drop in every room. If the house were a bit bigger I would have opted for Cat6a instead but honestly, it wouldn't be necessary.