Wiring LAN Cable in the house

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hello i have my router in the sweet spot "for Vodacom LTE" and i am getting 0.1 Mbps over wireless where my desktop is. what company can i phone that will wire a cable to my desktop from the router.
 
TheSuperSonic said:
hello i have my router in the sweet spot "for Vodacom LTE" and i am getting 0.1 Mbps over wireless where my desktop is. what company can i phone that will wire a cable to my desktop from the router.
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Your're going to pay quite a bit if you get a company to do it for you.
Its so much cheaper and very easy to do yourself. Knowing how easy it is, i'd say watch some videos to learn how to crimp a RJ45 and do it yourself its really not difficult. I'm from the vaal too, but start my new Job tomorrow in JHB.
 
Usually between R600 - R1200 per point... use google to find companies (unless someone here can recommend) and start asking for quotes to check which is the cheapest
 
If you do it yourself and you pulling it through the roof, watch your step. 12 year old me made a massive hole in the ceiling. One leg was still on the wall and one leg was through the ceiling.

Cable color codes. Keep the 8 cables the same color on both ends. As simple as that. Or do what SauronZA said, buy a made cable
 
smc said:
If you haven't done this before, then I'd recommend not messing with RJ45s. Rather use boxes at each end point and use pre-made RJ45 patch cable from the box to the equipment, e.g, like this: https://scoop.co.za/linkbasic-cat5e-single-surface-mount-box.html

The boxes are much easier to deal with, and can be terminated without a special tool. Although, a cheap Krone tool like this makes it easier: https://scoop.co.za/linkbasic-utp-krone-tool.html
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Yeah good point.

Keystone jacks are much easier to do and usually colour coded to make it Ages 1-3 stuff.

I can't make an ethernet cable to save my life and usually need to try multiple times, but I can wire up an entire building with keystone jacks and a punch tool.
 
TheSuperSonic said:
hello i have my router in the sweet spot "for Vodacom LTE" and i am getting 0.1 Mbps over wireless where my desktop is. what company can i phone that will wire a cable to my desktop from the router.
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Buy the stuff from Scoop.co.za
You will need Cat6 Cable, Boots and RJ45 plugs. And also the crimping tool.
When you have all the stuff, watch some Youtube videos on how to crimp the ends.
It's super easy.
Contact me if you have problems, I am in Alberton.
 
LazyLion said:
Buy the stuff from Scoop.co.za
You will need Cat6 Cable, Boots and RJ45 plugs. And also the crimping tool.
When you have all the stuff, watch some Youtube videos on how to crimp the ends.
It's super easy.
Contact me if you have problems, I am in Alberton.
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That is what I did, except I used Shielded UV Protected CAT5E cable as I have some running outside. If you have a proper RJ45 crimp tool it is very easy to make your own length cables and terminate them.
 
In this day and age for R295 I'd buy cat 6 cable. Had issues with only 10m of cat5e not hitting 1gig, switch it out for cat6 and it was fine.
 
Lupus said:
In this day and age for R295 I'd buy cat 6 cable. Had issues with only 10m of cat5e not hitting 1gig, switch it out for cat6 and it was fine.
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What specification is that CAT6 cable? Shielded? Foiled? Solid or CCA? UV coated? For R295 I doubt it would have fulfilled the requirements I was looking for in LAN cable.
 
It was CCA, I'm just going on what is on Scoops website, their shielded cat 6 is 995 for 100 meters which also isn't bad, it's only R145 more then the cat5e. Just saying in my experience the cat5e couldn't get me over 100megs from 10meters, while the cat6 could.
 
Lupus said:
It was CCA, I'm just going on what is on Scoops website, their shielded cat 6 is 995 for 100 meters which also isn't bad, it's only R145 more then the cat5e. Just saying in my experience the cat5e couldn't get me over 100megs from 10meters, while the cat6 could.
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CCA may have something to do with that, it is notoriously brittle/fragile and from what I remember not rated for Gigabit networking. Good quality, solid core, shielded/foiled CAT5E will easily get you over 100Mbps over a fair distance but it costs quite a bit. I paid just short of R800/100m of Shielded UV Protected Solid Core CAT5E cable which is expensive.
 
Scoop's LinkBasic solid core cat 5e cable has worked fine for me on 1G 50m+ links. R490/100m. I don't ever use CCA because of the POE limitations.
 
smc said:
Scoop's LinkBasic solid core cat 5e cable has worked fine for me on 1G 50m+ links. R490/100m. I don't ever use CCA because of the POE limitations.
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Good point on the PoE, I bought the cabling I did partly for networking and partly for an IP based CCTv using PoE capable cameras.
 
Hellhound105 said:
Cable color codes. Keep the 8 cables the same color on both ends. As simple as that.
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There is a reason LAN cables are twisted pairs and how the pairs are arranged. It has to do with electromagnetic interference and crosstalk. The correct sequence is to use T-568B. this is how pre-made cables are coded, but nothing is stopping you from using your own colour scheme as long as pair 2 straddles pair 3 and you follow the WhiteColour / Colour arrangment.
  1. WhiteOrange (pair1-1)
  2. Orange (pair1-2)
  3. WhiteGreen (pair2-1)
  4. Blue (pair3-2)
  5. WhiteBlue (pair3-1)
  6. Green (pair2-2)
  7. WhiteBrown (pair4-1)
  8. Brown (pair4-2)
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A crossover cable uses T-568A on one end and T-568B on the other. basically swap the Orange pair with the Green pair. Crossover cables are pretty much redundant now because most routers and switches can auto scene them and "adjust".

Oh and a tester is a must if you don't want to pull your hair out. Even the best cable pullers will tell you that they sometimes screw up.
 

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Jissis talk about overkill here....this guy isn't starting his own cabling company FFS. Buying crimping tools and punch down tools and wall boxes....for 1 cable in his house? Are you nuts?

@TheSuperSonic
OP:
Take a measuring tape and measure the distance from point to point as best you can.
Ask Scoop to make you a cable.
Install the cable.
If you need to glue it into corners on walls or doors somewhere, buy a bottle of "cabling glue" from a hardware shop. It comes in the white, plastic bottle with a sharp point and is usually in the electrical department.
It's what Telkom uses and never comes off. The glue from a glue gun does not last.
 
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