Morning all,
Hoping you can help me with one or two possibly stupid questions but with all the threads I’ve read I cannot see them
I’m currently converting a detached garage, and plan to run an armoured cat6 UTP to the garage where it will transfer to solid cat6 UTP via an IDC coupler
What I don’t understand is how I terminate that solid cat6 inside the garage, would I do this directly into a patch panel?
The Patch panel will be in the same cupboard as the other tech equipment, One Connect box, sky q, fire stick etc
I know I will need an Ethernet switch like one from Netgear so that’s fine, but if I terminate the incoming connection into say port 1 of the patch panel, I assume I would need to put a patch cable from the output of the patch panel into port 1 of the switch so the broadband will then work on the devices
The next question is about WiFi APs, I’m going to look at getting a ceiling mounted Ubiquiti unit, which will be away from the patch panel etc, how do I do this, do I run a cable from the patch panel to the ceiling where I want the AP, terminate it somehow and then run a small patch cable from the termination to the AP? What would I terminate it in if thats the preferred, it’ll be in the ceiling so I’m thinking more another IDC coupler?
Just confirming some of the Ubiquiti APs are POE. Are there any heat concerns through the cat6 cabling if used in this way
I also assume that the answer to terminating the cat6 in the ceiling for the AP would be the same in the soffit/fascia for any POE CCTV that I may install and will leave provision for?
And finally, the garage will be complete before the home cat6 rewire is started, and in the house I planned to have a bigger server cupboard so to speak with its own patch panel, so is it possible to have two patch panels in one setup. It looks to be on threads I’ve read but I didn’t understand the connecting of the, together
This is what I’d thought but not sure, I would have the house wiring including a patch cable internally that terminates in a wall plate close to the doors at the back of the house
It would be this location where the armoured would commence before going under the garden and then do everything that I’ve said above in the garage itself, but what I‘m not sure on is how to connect the two, is this done with another IDC coupler to a second patch cable in the area of the wall plate?
Long post so thanks for anyone that reads it all the way, from all the posts I’ve read I’ve got all the following in my basket so far to get started and get the garage complete ready for the house
Thanks
Gary
Hoping you can help me with one or two possibly stupid questions but with all the threads I’ve read I cannot see them
I’m currently converting a detached garage, and plan to run an armoured cat6 UTP to the garage where it will transfer to solid cat6 UTP via an IDC coupler
What I don’t understand is how I terminate that solid cat6 inside the garage, would I do this directly into a patch panel?
The Patch panel will be in the same cupboard as the other tech equipment, One Connect box, sky q, fire stick etc
I know I will need an Ethernet switch like one from Netgear so that’s fine, but if I terminate the incoming connection into say port 1 of the patch panel, I assume I would need to put a patch cable from the output of the patch panel into port 1 of the switch so the broadband will then work on the devices
The next question is about WiFi APs, I’m going to look at getting a ceiling mounted Ubiquiti unit, which will be away from the patch panel etc, how do I do this, do I run a cable from the patch panel to the ceiling where I want the AP, terminate it somehow and then run a small patch cable from the termination to the AP? What would I terminate it in if thats the preferred, it’ll be in the ceiling so I’m thinking more another IDC coupler?
Just confirming some of the Ubiquiti APs are POE. Are there any heat concerns through the cat6 cabling if used in this way
I also assume that the answer to terminating the cat6 in the ceiling for the AP would be the same in the soffit/fascia for any POE CCTV that I may install and will leave provision for?
And finally, the garage will be complete before the home cat6 rewire is started, and in the house I planned to have a bigger server cupboard so to speak with its own patch panel, so is it possible to have two patch panels in one setup. It looks to be on threads I’ve read but I didn’t understand the connecting of the, together
This is what I’d thought but not sure, I would have the house wiring including a patch cable internally that terminates in a wall plate close to the doors at the back of the house
It would be this location where the armoured would commence before going under the garden and then do everything that I’ve said above in the garage itself, but what I‘m not sure on is how to connect the two, is this done with another IDC coupler to a second patch cable in the area of the wall plate?
Long post so thanks for anyone that reads it all the way, from all the posts I’ve read I’ve got all the following in my basket so far to get started and get the garage complete ready for the house
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Thanks
Gary