oh. that's just what I did too.
> In our remodel I put a bunch of 2+2 in (2 4-pair Cat5E + 2 RG6 coax) and
> pulled it all back to a bunch of cabinets (2 42in and 1 24in) in the
> attic. I used OnQ cabinets but parts for them aren't as common as some
> others, you can get Leviton at Home Depot now.
>
> One of the 42in cabinets gets the Cat5E for phone and network and etc,
> the other gets the video cabling (and a single 42in cabinet is hardly
> enough to terminate ~45 RG6 coax plus a DSS multiswitch, etc etc, a lot
> of the unused coax has ended up bundled up on top of the cabinet), the
> 24in cabinet gets all the infrared wiring (various receivers and
> emitters in the living spaces for stereo and etc. control + a $.09
> Mouser IR LEDs up in each of the Velux electric skylights so we can run
> any skylight from anywhere.)
>
> I brought all the Cat5E into its cabinet and terminated them on the OnQ
> 8xRJ45 termination panels. I did all our wiring according to the T568B
> color-codes. The phone/DSL demarc box is in the garage, patch cord to
> an RJ45 jack in the wall that goes back to the cabinet, made a patch
> cord from the jack in the cabinet that splits the phone pair from the
> DSL pair.
>
> Phone pair goes to an OnQ 5-port phone-distribution block, patch cords
> from that back to the RJ45s that are wired out to where we want to put
> phones. Eventually I'll have a more elaborate phone setup.
>
> DSL pair to DSL modem, patch cord from there back out through one of the
> house Cat5Es to my office, where the 'outside' hub and firewall and the
> DMZ servers sit. From the firewall back through another wire to the
> panel, patch cord to the 8-port switch, the other ports then patched to
> whichever jacks in the house I want hard-wired network on.
>
> Sometime in the next couple weeks I'll finish configuring the Sveasoft
> stuff on the new WRT54G and put it in the attic to replace both the old
> P233-box firewall and the old base station, cutting the noise/heat/power
> consumption in the office and simplifying the cabling a bit.
>
> John.
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