My Cat 6 10/100/1000 Home Network Installation

[menotu]

+1  Neat, professional looking, very good, excellent presentation.

+1

Very detailed indeed. Thanks Hondo.

I'm a fan of Powerline Networking

[The Chief]

I've been wanting to do this for a long time - you may have just given me the incentive I needed to get off my backside!

[Just17]

I decided to buy the TP Link TL-SG1024D Gigabit Desktop/Rackmount Switch from Newegg

I am not sure of this, so am asking .......  I think this switch will not manage multicast transmissions, so if there is a multicast coming from an attached device then it will flood the whole lot of the connections ---  is this correct?

I have yet to complete my own wiring and am looking at this aspect of things.

[Hondo]

Well, I don't know what multicast transmissions are so I can't answer that.

I do know that I have had up to 4 computers online at the same time without any issues. It is unmanaged so there are no settings to set.

[Just17]

OK, thanks

[wedgetail]

Hondo
Nice job.

Have you done any speed test between two computers on your system? For example take a approx 2Gb file and time that with a stopwatch ? The time to save the same file to another location on your hardrive would also be interesting?

Completely different question.  The insulation material under the flooring shown from your basement, is that pushed hard up against the flooring?

[Hondo]

I have not done any network speed tests yet.

The insulation is only 3 1/2 thick so it does not fill the floor joist cavity. It is rock-wool sound insulation called Roxul.

[Meemaw]

Had you thought about submitting this to the magazine? It could be put into an easily-printed pdf for everyone's reference....

 

[Hondo]

Hadn't thought of that.

How do you submit something?

[parnote]

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,56176.msg853837.html#msg853837

Try this link.

[Roc4fun]

I recently bought a home.  I was anxious to get my network up so I used existing cable tv wiring runs.  Many are unsightly holes in the floor.  I've been considering a project just like this.  This write up is perhaps just the motivation I need.

Thanks Hondo !!

Dave

[nixer]

Hondo, what an excellent write up.  I enjoyed reading it and the install looks wonderful and professional. 

I wanted to ask, if in your research, you read what kind of speed increase would one expect to see from a change in cat 5 versus cat 6 cables?  I upgraded my home (wired) network to gigabit ethernet but I did not replace the cabling.  Would this make a difference?  I ask because the speed increase in transferring a 2gb file was noticeable but was less than I expected.  For example it took approximately one-third of the time to transfer a file with all gigabit hardware using cat5 cables.

[Just17]

Hondo, what an excellent write up.  I enjoyed reading it and the install looks wonderful and professional. 

I wanted to ask, if in your research, you read what kind of speed increase would one expect to see from a change in cat 5 versus cat 6 cables?  I upgraded my home (wired) network to gigabit ethernet but I did not replace the cabling.  Would this make a difference?  I ask because the speed increase in transferring a 2gb file was noticeable but was less than I expected.  For example it took approximately one-third of the time to transfer a file with all gigabit hardware using cat5 cables.

I am surprised you saw any improvement in speed of transfer of the file as I would expect the read (at one end) and write (at the other end) speeds of the devices involved tho limit the speed of transfer.

[nixer]

I am surprised you saw any improvement in speed of transfer of the file as I would expect the read (at one end) and write (at the other end) speeds of the devices involved tho limit the speed of transfer.

I thought about that before testing, but both testing machines were quad core processors and I thought this would eliminate most, if not all, slowdown between reading speed on the sending end and the writing speed on the receiving end, thus giving me a better idea of transfer speed increase between machines. 

I am only wondering if I would gain anything by installing new cat6 cables.  I am pretty happy with the speed increases that I saw just by upgrading the hardware - switches and ethernet cards.

[Just17]

Both cat5e and cat6 have almost the same qualities except for their specifications for cross talk and system noise.
In some situations this can be important ..... but IMO you would need to have a problem to be solved to go to the trouble to replace cat5e with cat6 in a home environment.

This page should give you some information .....

http://www.broadbandutopia.com/caandcaco.html