Running Cat6 Between Floors

1000 spool cat5e or cat6 cat6 recommended more or less based on your need.

Running cat6 between floors. Wiring new construction before the drywall goes in is a piece of cake compared to fishing them through existing walls and floors. I have cable service coming in from the street into the basement so that s where it made the most sense to install the cable modem the in house coax cables are pretty shoddy so avoiding them allows. I used the run one method. The ethernet cables are run between floors and also along the baseboards and walls.

Camera phones have saved me so many times. But with careful planning a few special tools and the right techniques running wires in the wall of your home may be easier than you might think. To find the lengths. Measure the extent between the appliances or gadget that will make use of the cable.

To run cable through a floor that contains a cross joist cut a hole in the cross joist in the cavity closest to the cable s entry point. You can estimate measure from floor plans run one etc. Wiring a two story house with a basement wasn t easy but with some drywall patching experience running cables between floors is possible. Don t simply assume that you can or should use old style category 3 cabling for voice.

Then run the cable through the hole in the cross joist and through 1 2 inch holes in each joist between the entry point and the communications outlet. Best way to run ethernet or cat6 from 1st floor to 2nd floor. I highly recommend using your camera on your phone to look in the walls before drill the hole between floors to be sure there is no electrical or plumbing in your way. Measure the length of all baseboards and walls that the cable will pass through.

The cable would be running from one device like a tv set to a different device.