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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wb the ceiling? Then paint the wire to match the walls LMFAO. I've also seen people cut channels in drywall then spackle over the wire (this can be a problem if you go to hang something though...)

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

Yeah the correct way to do it is to chisel a channel in the plaster and embed the cable in the plaster, but thats quite an ordeal to do, a lot of older houses here have plaster on brick interior walls, the same plaster you find in old houses in the US where you'd have lathe and plaster instead because you mostly build houses from wood. (Also we call drywall plasterboard)