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Hey selfhosted, any tips or tricks for running cat6 in your home? (self.selfhosted)
submitted 1 year ago by FLAGSHIP to c/selfhosted
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I hope this is appropriate here. I figured it fits the general theme of things considering if we’re self hosting there’s gotta be some hardware involved.

I’ve got a house built in the 1960s US. I’m working on upgrading my security infrastructure to a PoE system as my previous choice of wireless system was a poor decision on my part. I have all my ‘gear’ if you will in the basement but I don’t have any convenient drops from the attic to my basement. I need to do a total of 8 drops from attic to basement. I’m not too versed in wiring things through a home (ie. minimal damage to walls and such) I’ve done long runs in warehouses but that was essential all open space.

My main questions are:

  1. is there any specific conduit I should be looking at to pull the runs through the walls?
  2. Is there any specific tools that I need to know about to make this job easier? I assume one of those line pullers would be handy in this case ( the hell are they actually called?
  3. Any other tips and tricks from those of you who have done something similar?
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[–] FLAGSHIP 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We’ve used trueCABLE here at work as well with good results, thanks for the specifics as I generally do most of the grunt work and am removed from the more technical aspects of the ordering so the details here are greatly appreciated.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The other thing I forgot to mention is that in my house at least, there's horizontal wood between the studs about half way up the wall. I guess as a fire block, like this: https://www.oneprojectcloser.com/fire-stops-fire-blocking-in-studs but thicker. That would have made it a lot harder for me to run cables to the attic, since I'd have to drill a hole through it. That and the fact that my attic isn't very tall (some parts of it are only a few feet tall) made the crawlspace the obvious choice.

I was also a bit scared drilling through the floor into the crawlspace and was worried I was doing something wrong since it was taking a while, but it turns out the subfloor is just very thick and so it takes a while to drill through it.