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Home automation is the residential extension of building automation.

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Cat5 Ports Help (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by Sufficient_Manner_91@alien.top to c/homeautomation@selfhosted.forum

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Hi y’all,

I’m getting a new house built and builder has asked me if I want cat 5 connections installed. I am thinking of having these cat 5 ports installed where the tv’s will be and where my office will be. Wifi for rest of the devices. It’s a three story house. Would cat5 wiring be run separately from each port to a central location in the basement? Im guessing that my main internet line to the house will come into basement.

Would I install modem in the basement and individually connect all these cat5 wires into the modem? Do I require anything else from the builder side? Does a wifi booster need a cat5 port? Anything else you guys foresee I should get before the drywall goes in?

Sorry for the noob questions. House is in Canada if it matters (we have optic)

Thanks!

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[–] StillCopper@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Cat6 is all I would accept. If they are installing cat5 they have no idea of cabling. Walk away. Anyway, network drops are least of use now. We install 2 cat6 lines for every TV or other devices so client can use for IR transmitting and other smart home functions. And prewire for hard wired cams, access points whether you use them or not. Even upper end doorbells are POE now, so run cat6 home run to the doorbell along with regular bell wire. Home run everything, for standard homes. All devices in a nice size closet or rack space. You have no idea how much space amps and other things take till you have to install them. Cannot over emphasize how you should spend the money now to get that wire in the walls for things you might want later. And don't let the ISP dictate where your internet should enter.