CreamBean
Novice Member
Good evening.
Moved into a new house last month that had an extension on the front and made into a home office. Virgin supply us with 350Mbps speed. There are no access points in the ”office” and the only internet access is WiFi. Now the WiFi barely connects and have looked at Powerline - but office is on a different circuit to the lounge and the speed is terrible. I have also looked at boosters but lag and latency is barely acceptable at best, not to mention the speed tops at 50Mbps.
Our Coax cable for the virgin goes from a brown wall based external box next to our front door, cable runs round the front of the house and the office, down the side of the property and into the wall and into a small box in the corner of our lounge next to our WiFi router.
I have decided the best course of action is to run an ethernet cable from the virgin box, out through the existing hole the Coax cable exits and hug that existing cable with the ethernet all the way down the side of the house until the office wall then drill through the brick and single sheet on internal plasterboard into the ’office’ and have a box on the wall with a keystone that I can plug the PC.
So, questions..
1 Execution.
Is there a way of doing this that I haven’t already thought of?
2. Access Point for office.
I don’t necessarily want to put a sunken “Back Box” in the office wall as I don’t want to start hammering into the brick, so looking for a box that i can install on the internal plasterboard that will protrude and cover the hole so the wire can run inside and I can wire it up to a keystone . I can’t find any boxes online apart from ones that sink in the wall? Unless there is an alternative or they can be used for both purposes?
3. Cable / Keystone
I have already bought 2 cables for the run which is about 12 metres ( I’ve been told to run 2 just for future proofing)
TanQY Outdoor Cat 7 Ethernet Cable 1M, Cat7 RJ45 Network Patch Cable Heavy-duty 10 Gigabit 600Mhz Lan Wire Cable Cord for Modem, Router, PC, Mac, Laptop, PS2, PS3, PS4, XBox 360 (1M/3Ft) https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07X1VWXNV/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_7OoHEbWH09C5T
Yes I know Cat 7 is overkill and potentially now going to cause me major headaches but I’ve made that jump now so I will have to deal with it and especially as it has the RJ45 pre installed on both ends. I’m also aware I will be/have to use Cat6 hardware.
I was going just to run the cable into the office, with a hole drilled large enough to fit both the RJ connector through and just leave the cables hanging out the wall and plug it in the PC. Im purely going for the box & keystone due to aesthetic’s.
What keystone will I need that will work with the Cat7 cable, what duel box will it fit in and how the hell do I wire it in? Do I just cut the existing RJ45 off and strip the wires? Is there a connector I can get to put in the wall box that is female for the existing cable & has a female slot on the other side to plug things into to save me stripping the wire?
I know a lot of this information may not be relevant to the questions, but hey, full picture.
Appreciate the help
Moved into a new house last month that had an extension on the front and made into a home office. Virgin supply us with 350Mbps speed. There are no access points in the ”office” and the only internet access is WiFi. Now the WiFi barely connects and have looked at Powerline - but office is on a different circuit to the lounge and the speed is terrible. I have also looked at boosters but lag and latency is barely acceptable at best, not to mention the speed tops at 50Mbps.
Our Coax cable for the virgin goes from a brown wall based external box next to our front door, cable runs round the front of the house and the office, down the side of the property and into the wall and into a small box in the corner of our lounge next to our WiFi router.
I have decided the best course of action is to run an ethernet cable from the virgin box, out through the existing hole the Coax cable exits and hug that existing cable with the ethernet all the way down the side of the house until the office wall then drill through the brick and single sheet on internal plasterboard into the ’office’ and have a box on the wall with a keystone that I can plug the PC.
So, questions..
1 Execution.
Is there a way of doing this that I haven’t already thought of?
2. Access Point for office.
I don’t necessarily want to put a sunken “Back Box” in the office wall as I don’t want to start hammering into the brick, so looking for a box that i can install on the internal plasterboard that will protrude and cover the hole so the wire can run inside and I can wire it up to a keystone . I can’t find any boxes online apart from ones that sink in the wall? Unless there is an alternative or they can be used for both purposes?
3. Cable / Keystone
I have already bought 2 cables for the run which is about 12 metres ( I’ve been told to run 2 just for future proofing)
TanQY Outdoor Cat 7 Ethernet Cable 1M, Cat7 RJ45 Network Patch Cable Heavy-duty 10 Gigabit 600Mhz Lan Wire Cable Cord for Modem, Router, PC, Mac, Laptop, PS2, PS3, PS4, XBox 360 (1M/3Ft) https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07X1VWXNV/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_7OoHEbWH09C5T
Yes I know Cat 7 is overkill and potentially now going to cause me major headaches but I’ve made that jump now so I will have to deal with it and especially as it has the RJ45 pre installed on both ends. I’m also aware I will be/have to use Cat6 hardware.
I was going just to run the cable into the office, with a hole drilled large enough to fit both the RJ connector through and just leave the cables hanging out the wall and plug it in the PC. Im purely going for the box & keystone due to aesthetic’s.
What keystone will I need that will work with the Cat7 cable, what duel box will it fit in and how the hell do I wire it in? Do I just cut the existing RJ45 off and strip the wires? Is there a connector I can get to put in the wall box that is female for the existing cable & has a female slot on the other side to plug things into to save me stripping the wire?
I know a lot of this information may not be relevant to the questions, but hey, full picture.
Appreciate the help