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Anyone know the stealthiest way to route a cable from one corner to the next (not including through the wall)? Need to get an ethernet cable from one corner of a room to the diagonal opposite. Appreciate the help!

Hi, Don't know where to start exactly with this topic but yeah lets get started. I'm interested what is the proper way of terminating the shielding of a ethernet run. Let's say we have a 19" rack at location A where we have an incoming SFP cable connected to Aruba 2530-24 switch which is distributing the network over a patch panel to LAN ports for PCS, printers and other stuff and also outgoing trunk CAT7 to another 19"rack at Location B. Rack at Location B again switch then patch panel then cables to ABB ACS6000 drive control cabinets. We are using CAT7 and terminating it to CAT6A female connectors. Then the female connectors are mounted to a DIN rail holder which inside the cabinet and finally from there to ABB switch. My question is where the termination of the shielding should be done and where not?

I just ordered a Cat 7 Ethernet cable, I was under the impression this is better than the previous Cat6/a cables but I've watched explaining there's no real benefit and I've been told they damage easier. Is this the case? I plan to have the cable run under the floor, around 10m. The cable I've bought: https://www.amazon.co.uk/KabelDirekt-connectors-Ethernet-transfers-suitable-Black/dp/B0843WLW6S/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=kabeldirekt+ethernet+10m&qid=1606907989&sr=8-3

Hi All Before moving into our new and renovated home, I had planned to build a desk PC but this plan won't work as well as I would want it to. Beijing being Beijing, space is so expensive so getting anything extra is a big bonus. External radiator: The original idea was to have a passively cooled PC using quite a few radiators, whereas now I'm thinking of getting a larger radiator(s) for a car etc and putting this on the outside of the house and wall mounting the PC. The new place is a bit strangely laid out, we occupy the ground and -1 floors, below us are storage rooms and there's a void on either side of the house (including next to my office) where a skylight lets light into the windows of rooms like my office and the storage room below. That void stays pretty cool in summer (Beijing is in the 30s °C, this must be in the teens), and quite cold in winter (often in the - figures, can get below -10°C probably a similar temperature despite being underground). I'm thinking that there will probably be 2 major considerations, pressure and the risk of freezing. Pressure I can overcome with pumps and staying with serial flow, but interested if anyone has experience with getting the pressure to run through a large radiator like a car. With the freezing risk, I can go with antifreeze as coolant but it looks like people have stated it needs to be diluted quite substantially. Does anyone have knowledge on this? This PC also won't be on all of the time, so I am concerned about it ptoentially freezing if the concentration is not good enough. Rack mounting The alternative would be to rack mount it. I have a 42U rack about 3 meters away from my office. The office has 2 ethernet jacks using CAT7 currently wired into a USW Pro 48+UDM Pro. I wouldn't mind replacing the wire in 1 of these with another that could enable a more distant setup. It also wouldn't be out of the question to run a wire up through the ceiling and to the rack. The length of this cable would probably need to be at least 11/12m. By the time I get around to this, or just coincide with an upgrade, my current CPU/MOBO will likely be replaced. Considering these 2 may be replaced, what would your thoughts on this be? My requirements currently (and likely stay this way for a while) are: 4k HDR 144hz display with 1ms refresh rate. 2 additional portrait 1080p monitors. USB: keypad, keyboard, mouse, webcam, DAC and another couple of ports for adhoc use. Would TB4 be the way to go or is there something else that's advisable? Especially given that there's already CAT 7 to play with. I'll rewatch some of Linus' house videos to refresh my memory on what he's doing but I think he was using a long corning TB cable that isn't easy to get your hands on. I don't mind going slightly experimental but it would be good to have a proof of concept/example before proceeding. I've used TB3 with a Caldigit dock as part of a previous setup and was happy with that. Any thoughts or references would be greatly appreciated! Many thanks

Hey guys, I need some help with my new project, I am trying to connect my router directly to my PC, The ethernet cable go through infrastructure pipes that are under the floor, then goes outside, and then go back inside through the wall to my room, in the first floor. In order to do that I need some recommendetions for cable brand, I'm looking for a 35 meter or 114.8294 feet CAT 7 ethernet cable for outdoor use (Not sure which cable brand is the best quility) Thanks!

I am looking to install ethernet cable in my house from the room with the modem, through the attic, and into the living room. I'm planning on putting in two seperate "lines" if possible. One for the tv/game system area, and the other for the home office/PC area. I have my eye on a pair of 50ft Cat7 cables from Monoprice for $20USD/each that I believe should do the trick. My question is, do I need to get wall outlets specifically for Cat7, or will ones rated for cat5 work without signal/speed issues ? Additionally, would it be weird if I just fed the cables through the wall directly into the PC/game system? As opposed to running the cable to an outlet, and then a much shorter cable from the outlet to the devices?

Hi everyone! I hope everyone is healthy and distancing. I would like to hard wire network my home. I have been looking into this for years at this point, but I think possibly by this winter I want to pull the trigger and do it, so I have a lot of time between now and then to buy what I need. I live in southern Texas, so doing it now is out of the question do to the heat in my attic. I'd like to run my cables through my attic and down my walls to my PC, my sons PC, my NAS, Nvidia shield, apple TV, PS4, Xbox One, and wireless router. I am fairly new to networking apart from setting up my wifi routers, and a switch confuses me, I don't understand what it means when its said that the switch creates networks and the router connects the different networks. Question #1 Do I go from modem, to router, to switch or from modem, to switch, to router? I have seen both suggested. Question #2 What is a good switch to get? I'd like at least gigabit, I would say 10 gigabit but I don't think any items on my network have a 10 gigabit connection. Question #3 Is there even a point to 10 gigabit? Would that allow items to connect to my internet better or just to each other better? I know from LTT's video "Home 10 Gig Network Upgrade for CHEAP" that 10 gigabit is somewhat affordable, albeit not cheap. Would having that "room to breathe" in network allow better net connection? I am getting gigabit speed from ISP, so I know that having a 10 gigabit network won't magically give me a 10 gigabit internet connection(that would be awesome though). Question #4 What is a good switch to get? I was looking at some Linksys ones, since that is what I have usually had for routers, and current router is a Linksys(Max-Stream AC5400), but I just want a good one. Question #5 I can afford Cat8 cable from pricing I have found, and I'd like to future proof this network, so is there a reason to not get Cat8? Question #6 My modem is a Arris Surfboard SB8200 and I am paying for gigabit from my ISP(Grande), can anyone tell me why when I connect my PC directly to the modem I get basically the full gigabit but when my PC is connected through router, which is all on same desk my speeds are usually 300mbps or less.

Hello, I have some questions about networking and using hdmi 2.0 over ethernet (cat 6a or cat7). I want to have all my devices (Sky+ box, PS4 Pro, Xbox one S and Apple TV) all connected to the network switch so in theory we would be able to watch the same TV show in the lounge; the master bedroom and the kitchen but having the ability for one person be able to switch to the PS4 independently. If possible i’d like to do this with 4k signals rather then just 1080p. This is for our newly built house, we want almost every room to have internet over Ethernet. In the TV rooms we plan to have Ethernet to hdmi converters which terminate in the wall. Every cable will be ran Independently and connect to a netgear switch. This is the list of products we will be using: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00H2ETA1M?ref=emc_b_5_t https://www.amazon.co.uk/Duronic-CAT6a-Professional-Shielded-Network/dp/B003CL71II/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1484256177&sr=8-3&keywords=cat6a+cable

I’m trying to connect 2 ASUS AiMesh routers (DSL-AC68U as mesh router and RT-AC66U B1 as node) together with a long distance Ethernet cable. Mesh network is up and working over WiFi for now. So I wired my house (with about 20m, or 65 7 feet ??) with a cat7 F/FFTP cables, I terminated them both with keystone jacks, t568a on both ends. I used the keystone jacks for esthetic purposes only, small house. When connecting my pc to the jack I get a link (only receiving), but no IP. Same happens with the mesh node. I guess I missed something out (maybe crossed/patch issue). Should I buy a cable tester and check my wiring or an I missing something more obvious? Help a newbie out ?

Hi, I just upgraded my internet speeds to 1 Gbps through Verizon (East coast, USA). Therefore I had to upgrade my Ethernet cable from a cat5. I replaced it with a cat7 and I am only getting about 80Mbps up and about 90Mbps down. I made sure I was running 1Gbit Full Duplex though windows as well as verified it on my router. I don't think it is a bad cable because I tested with a cat5e and cat6 cable and got the same results. Let me know if you have any ideas! Thanks.

What do you do if you have a big store and need to drive a bunch of displays in 4K? How about a GPU with nothing but ETHERNET outputs? Buy an Advoli TA6 Performance from Advoli: https://lmg.gg/8KV94 Buy an LG 43UD79: On Amazon: https://geni.us/Wf2c On Newegg: https://lmg.gg/8KV9V Buy an Acer Predator XB271HK: On Amazon: https://geni.us/D1LL On Newegg: https://lmg.gg/8KV9q

For over a year I have been using CAT7 S/FTP in my home and every time when I run a new cable I wonder.. Does it really matter what type connector I use? I got Draka cat7 cable because I wanted to be future prove “better do it right the first time”. While the cable was easy to get, the LSA / RJ45 connectors just weren’t there. So I used CAT6a LSA wall outlets / patch panels and CAT5e RJ45 connectors. Even now it´s hard to find CAT7 rated products, and if you find them the price knocks you over. It gives me the feeling that the “right connector,keystone” doesn’t matter that much. And that it might be possible to get my 10GBe speed (best case) on a CAT7 cable equipped with CAT5e connectors. I would love to test this case, but I don’t own a 10GBe network (yet), so help me out guys. Does it really matter, and if yes, how much does it matter?

So my mother wants to mov her home office into another room. I suggested that while the room is empty and accessible we run Ethernet threw the wall instead of using the current system of having it duck taped to the floor. Now my debate in my head. The new room is basically over the router on the floor below so the old run of cat5e cable is much longer than would be needed to reach the 2nd floor, but I'm thinking if I'm going to run cable should I upgrade while I'm at it. It's not likely she'll ever need the speed of cat6A or cat7 forgetting cat8 but if I'm going to invest the time to go up into the attic and do it right should I have a more modern cable so I don't have to run it again in a few years or can I get away with the 10/100/1000 for now. For note they have 90MB/S down from Comcast so yeah not actually taxing the cat5e ATM.

UPDATE: updated Laptop's network driver, speed went to 80 MB/s --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello, I'm transfering files from my laptop to my desktop, but I can't seem to get a speed bigger than 10MB/s. I'm transfering a 1GB file and this is what it looks like: Transfer speed with cat7 LAN cables Transfer speed over WiFi Here is the setup: LAPTOP > LAN CABLE > ROUTER > LAN CABLE > DESKTOP Laptop: this one, Windows 10 Laptop SSD: I'll asume the read speed is over 400 MB/s Laptop Network card: Speed 1.0 Gbps (by going to "Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network Connections", right clicking Status on the Ethernet adapter, not sure if the correct place to look) Cable1: cat7 from laptop to router Router: Archer C7, Wireless Speed 1300 Mbps, Gigabit LAN ports Cable2: cat7 from router to desktop Desktop: Windows 10 Desktop Network Card: Speed 1.0 Gbps Desktop SSD: over 500MB/s write speed Where could be the problem that I'm getting only 5 or 10 MB/s (80 Mbps) where I should be getting a theoretical 125 MB/s (1 Gbps)? I have disconnected my laptop from any WiFi networks, so I'm sure it's using the LAN cable to connect to the router. My internet speed is 20 Mbps so I can't give you information about how is the download speed experience there for faster speeds. If you need more info ask me. Thanks for the help.

So I have my server in my attic and modem and router there too. All the networking goes there from every room. It's all cat5e to the rooms except for my room and my office (one has work PC and other my gaming PC) which is cat6a. I use the gigabit ports on the Mobo to the 24 port 10gigabit switch which it 10gig copper. But my transfer speed to the server is maxed at 10 megabytes per second (100 megabits per second). My servers Mobo has a 100megabit port so I need a NIC that's rj45 and capable of 10 gigabit or at the very least 5 gigabit using LAG from a 5 port NIC. On top of all that I don't trust the cables I bought on Amazon or at Staples and I want to know what brand is the best and where to get good cat7 and cat6a so I can redo the house with cat6a and my room and office with cat7. I know it's over kill but come on.... Who wouldn't do it if they could

I'm looking at buying a house soon and fixing it up and installing structured wiring for a home network and everything else. My delima is that I dont know if I should use cat 6 or cat 7. I wanna future proof it whenever i go to resell it in the future. Ill take any types or anything anybody knows. Thanks!

So, I just got my dad to move a router (the fifth generation Apple AirPort Extreme, I know, I hate Apple too, but I didn't buy it and it was crazy easy to set up) up to my bedroom where my PC is so I can have Ethernet. The current cable works, but the router is in my closet and I'd like to route the cables under the ~10mm clearance under the sliding door and there isn't enough slack on the cable to do that. A 15' cable should fix that. Since there's basically no price difference between Cat5, 5e, 6, 6e and 7, I figure I should just get a 15' 7 and call it a day. Is that what I should do? The router has Gigabit Ethernet, so I don't see why not, but I just want to make sure I'm not missing something. Thanks.

my house was built in the 60s and there was no internet in the 60s shocker I know. so there is no wired internet connection how would i go about doing this but still keeping the wireless internet for phones and ipads. Would i have to take the connection from my modem to a gigabit switch and one of the ports to my router and run a bunch of cables from the switch through out the walls (im a pretty handy man) and make ports in each room? should i use cat 7 or cat 6? I think that is how you do it