Running an external CAT6 cable up my house, what do I need.

[Phunk]

We currently have scaffolding up and thought it would be a good time to run a CAT6 cable from my living room (downstairs) to my office (upstairs).

I'm going to run this from my media cabinet, through the wall, up the outside of the house, into the loft, across to my office and down.

Would a kit like this do the job?

https://www.bcedirect.co.uk/products/cat6-extensio...

Thanks!

[dapprman]

Looks fine assuming you are surface mounting the cable. (I'll leave it to others to show alternatives and/or cheaper variants).
If you are going to drill in to the plaster work and bury the cable then I would strongly recommend a cable run so if you do need to replace it you just pull the faulty one out and pull the new one through.

[jodypress]

I did this a month or so ago when I was having internet issues (was a VM superhub 4 which as the VM engineer said, is a piece of crap, now got a Superhub 5 and great)
Anyhow got some ethernet Cable 20M,Flat Cat 7 for £8 off Amazon and then just used some 20mm Black pvc conduit to put it inside. Works a treat and get some decent speed on 1Gb internet.


Also got a little 4 port gigabit router to connect to another room should I ever need to move my office.
Have mesh wifi which works well but can't touch the hard wire speeds.

[somouk]

I would be making sure it is external grade cable but other than that the kit looks good.

[Polly Grigora]

Have had standard cable hanging down a wall unprotected for approx 10 years and it's still good, rats haven't seen it yet

[snuffy]

Phunk said:

We currently have scaffolding up and thought it would be a good time to run a CAT6 cable from my living room (downstairs) to my office (upstairs).

I'm going to run this from my media cabinet, through the wall, up the outside of the house, into the loft, across to my office and down.

Would a kit like this do the job?

https://www.bcedirect.co.uk/products/cat6-extensio...

Thanks!

I've done pretty much that as well. From my router in the living room, through the wall, up the outside of the house, through the wall into the loft, along and down into my office (behind a bit of trunking) - normal cat6 cable.

One problem I found was that no matter how careful I was making the RJ45 ends, it would only ever connect at 100mps. I must have remade both ends a dozen times, and used two different RG45 crimp tools and also used one of those things you stick on either end to test each core is correct,, which they were. But nope, 100mps each time.

In the end, I used these instead:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00IO3HEN6/

And then connected to them using a couple of short premade cat6 cables and away it went.

Now I get: