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Installing Ethernet Cable (West to North side of house)
If you have a basement, the easiest way to wire the ground floor is through the basement -- you can even use jacks that surface-mount on the baseboard and drill a hole through the edge of the floor, ...
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Installing Ethernet Cable (West to North side of house)
When all the key pieces are on outer walls, which appears to be the case here, going outside often makes sense. I would use white, gray or black cable - bright red or blue will stand out a bit too ...
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Installing Ethernet Cable (West to North side of house)
If you're not afraid of (presumably) drywall repair, running them in the ceiling space between the two floors is the obvious option to stay mostly out of the insulated outer walls and get where you ...
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Best Practices for running data conduits through basement
One more important point: Even with a high-quality tool made for the purpose, getting a good connection from wire to a crimp-on RJ45 plug can be difficult to achieve by hand. It is much simpler to use ...
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Best Practices for running data conduits through basement
Service loops would most conveniently live in the wiring closet, or else somewhere in the basement.
ENT (smurf tube) is a relatively good choice of conduit type for ease of installation. If you want ...
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Using Cat5 cable for powering doorbell and wire gauges
If your doorbell (I'm not looking it up, presumably it doesn't use the cable for data) needs only 2 wires, might as well do 4&4 since you have 8, and they are much smaller than standard doorbell ...
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