FTP cable really worth it?

[ijsbeermeneer]

Hi guys,

I just moved and decided to redo my network and in my last house I didn't have utp ports in my walls but I do in this house.

So I got to plugin 10 utp cables.

So first of all I was looking for a good splitter, I found this one. Is it alright?

https://www.serverkast.com/10-inch-cat6-ftp-patchpaneel-12-poorts.html?gclid=CjwKCAjwppPKBRAGEiwAh2G1mFsWgknZeiyrxn31Y_SKYcozXpcnFzv4BRK-V2Xt764aoUoRsEt4gBoCZMsQAvD_BwE

(It's dutch but I hope it will translate)

Than I wanted to buy some rj45 connectors and a 50m cat6 cable, but I came along a different type I had never heard from "ftp" so I googled it and found it is insolated so it is better with strong magnetic fields. Since I will be hanging that splitter and the cables in my transformer substation I thought I maybey needed those cause there flows much electricity there.

So my question is do I need that and is it really worth it?

Thanks for helping me out.

btw. I'm sorry for some language mistakes I'm only 14 and from another country so please don't get annoyed.

[tlink]

thats not really a splitter, its just a connector. if you're looking for something that lets everything cross talk then that won't do that, its purely a pass trough so you don't have to plug stuff in the back of a server whenever you have to do maintenance and easy rerouting and better cable management. i think you mean a switch, which is basically what consumer routers have build into them.

heres the dutch wikipedia page about switches: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switch_(hardware)

[AndersT2]

The FTP is for shielded cables, and works just fine with unshielded too. It's marked as FTP so you know it also gives contact to the shielding when using shielded patch cables.

There is two types of shielded cables, FTP and STP. F means that it's a foil shield, and S means it's a stranded shielding. For a connector it doesn't matter which cable, but the connector will always be FTP marked.

 

FTP and STP takes away different kinds of frequencies, FTP takes away high, and STP takes away low, like noise for 230V powercables. So best solution for cables is aqually those marked with S/FTP, which have both. For home use, there should be much use for shielded cables, but if one makes a home network that one intends on using for many years, and hopefulle for 10 GB network in the future, I'd go for shielded. Did so myself, but had extra laying around from work.

[faziten]

4 hours ago, ijsbeermeneer said:

Hi guys,

I just moved and decided to redo my network and in my last house I didn't have utp ports in my walls but I do in this house.

So I got to plugin 10 utp cables.

So first of all I was looking for a good splitter, I found this one. Is it alright?

https://www.serverkast.com/10-inch-cat6-ftp-patchpaneel-12-poorts.html?gclid=CjwKCAjwppPKBRAGEiwAh2G1mFsWgknZeiyrxn31Y_SKYcozXpcnFzv4BRK-V2Xt764aoUoRsEt4gBoCZMsQAvD_BwE

(It's dutch but I hope it will translate)

Than I wanted to buy some rj45 connectors and a 50m cat6 cable, but I came along a different type I had never heard from "ftp" so I googled it and found it is insolated so it is better with strong magnetic fields. Since I will be hanging that splitter and the cables in my transformer substation I thought I maybey needed those cause there flows much electricity there.

So my question is do I need that and is it really worth it?

Thanks for helping me out.

btw. I'm sorry for some language mistakes I'm only 14 and from another country so please don't get annoyed.

To be frank, yes it is worth. I don't know your house, but if it's a signaling mess like every house in this planet then yes, get shielded cables. So you don't have to worry about how many AC lines are you crossing and such things. Bare in mind even a ever so slight breach in the shield may introduce horrible noise. Watch many tutorials until you get it right and contacts are on spot as they should. shielded cat6 can make it to 10Gbit network in short distances as you describe, so you will be futureproofing the whole thing. 

 

best of lucks man.