Ethernet cabling: Electrician or Networking Specialist

threesixnine

I want to run some ethernet cable round the outside of the house, from my router to the diagonally opposite point of the house. I've got by with powerline plugs up to now, but am getting fed up with their flakiness. The run is about 20 metres and I'd like it terminated with wall sockets at either end.

I'm not going to do this myself but am unsure whether this is a job for a regular electrician or whether it needs a specialist.

Would appreciate advice.

TELLIT01

I'd check with an electrician first for such a small job. Network specialist are likely to be more expensive.

Owain_Moneysaver

An electrician could do it, but you need one that knows how to do data cabling and has an ethernet speed tester (not one that just tests for cable continuity).

There are still plenty of electricians who would wire ethernet and tv points as ring circuits and strip all the sheathing and untwist the pairs for neatness :-)

dunroving

Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »

An electrician could do it, but you need one that knows how to do data cabling and has an ethernet speed tester (not one that just tests for cable continuity).

There are still plenty of electricians who would wire ethernet and tv points as ring circuits and strip all the sheathing and untwist the pairs for neatness :-)

+1, although you may find a specialist who will do this for a similar price.

Maybe look for satellite installers in the "Yellow Pages" also, as they often have data capabilities too, as the two tend to go together these days.

poppellerant

My only worry with having an electrician installing runs of ethernet cable, is that he might just treat it like normal wire and run it alongside mains cables and round tight corners.

Install Cat6a cable and this ought to future proof your house for some time to come. I've had Cat5e cable installed for a long time and it is running 1Gbps speeds along lengths of up to 30 meters right now. Money well spent in my opinion, but I do intend to upgrade it to Cat6a in a few years.

FreeBear

Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »

There are still plenty of electricians who would wire ethernet and tv points as ring circuits and strip all the sheathing and untwist the pairs for neatness :-)

Well..... I'm in the middle of installing a network "ring". The last node won't loop back, but instead have a termination resistor fitted. If you're interested, it is a serial MODBUS running at 9600 Baud - Low speed, but I only need data from each node once every minute or so.

onomatopoeia99

FreeBear wrote: »

Well..... I'm in the middle of installing a network "ring". The last node won't loop back, but instead have a termination resistor fitted. If you're interested, it is a serial MODBUS running at 9600 Baud - Low speed, but I only need data from each node once every minute or so.

I got excited for a moment there when I saw a ring network and was going to try to offload some 30 year old micro channel architecture Token Ring hardware :rotfl: