Home Network help

[AdsStan]

So my dad decided to switch ISP's from SKY to BT and he decided to get the BT Infinity 2 Unlimited package (Fiber Optic Broadband), im pretty sure they install FTTH (AKA FTTP). Before he decided to switch ISP I was planning to setup a home network because every device (two xbox 360's, two laptops, my tablet, a smart phone, SKY TV Box and an iPod) except our old 7/8 year old PC (what uses a Ethernet cable of some sort) is running on a 5 or 6 year old wireless G router what was provided by SKY, I don't know how the router hasn't set on fir or broken by now. The original plan was to use a switch from the router/modem leading to my dads xbox, my xbox and laptop also my soon to be built PC, all running over CAT5e cabling. But with BT having to come over and fit Fiber cable to a modem what has Gigabit Ethernet and sending us a new router what has wireless AC and 4 Gigabit Ethernet ports it meant that I will have to redo the whole plan sort of <_< .

 

So my question is:

Do I use Cat5e for a potential Gigabit connection or do I use Cat6 for a Gigabit connection?

Also should I use a patch panel or a few modular faceplates?

 

Any help as always appreciated tkx in advance   

[Gung Pow Chicken]

Patch Panel, I would just go cat5e.

[Gung Pow Chicken]

Have you ever terminated before?

[AdsStan]

Patch Panel, I would just go cat5e.

 

 

Have you ever terminated before?

Sorry for the late reply

no I have not terminated before but my dad has so ill have to ask him about that

and ill stick with cat5e and a patch panel 

 

thanks for the answer btw

[Gung Pow Chicken]

Sorry for the late reply

no I have not terminated before but my dad has so ill have to ask him about that

and ill stick with cat5e and a patch panel 

 

thanks for the answer btw

NP, I would recommend the B standard BTW

[costin.buga]

I hate using patch pannels. They are alot of work for nothing. Its not like you have the router in a rack and you cannot see behind it.

[AdsStan]

NP, I would recommend the B standard BTW

what for, the termination?

 

also again sorry for the late reply

[AdsStan]

I hate using patch pannels. They are alot of work for nothing. Its not like you have the router in a rack and you cannot see behind it.

no I dont have the router in a rack but the patch panel is going to be installed in to a cable space and i would have used 2 4 port modular faceplates insted