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- When more and more connected devices at home
relying on the WiFi,
a strong internet connection
has never been more important.
However, the best way to get a strong
WiFi connection throughout the home,
is to have a wide system.
And in this series of videos,
we're going to look at home networking.
This is a golden opportunity
to upsell into a rebar
or as a standalone electrical installation
in order that you can offer to customers
an improved internet access throughout the home.
We're gonna to look at the cabling system,
including their terminations.
In this case we're going to use Cat Six cable
and how we take the connections from the back of our router,
to the points within the installation.
One benefit of a home networking system, I've experiences,
I've stopped hearing the words,
it's lagging dad, it's lagging dad,
as the WiFi causes issues with the games console.
The games console now has a
hard wired internet connection
and all those problems seem to have gone away.
We're more and more of us considering working from home
or are working from home,
and I've set aside this area in my own house for a PC,
having a reliable internet connection to the computer
is vitally important.
The best way to do that
is to have a data point fixed wiring
and hardwired connection to the home PC.
In this series we're also going to look at
the benefits of using power over ethernet vora switch
in order that you can power things such as
wireless access plates.
We'll take a look at the tender data points,
which has fixed wiring internet in it,
and an RJ-45 connection out of it.
But also note the flashing light.
This plate itself also
is a WiFi access point,
improving the WiFi in this area.
To help explain in further detail
the aspects of home networking system,
I've got here in my installation,
plus some more features.
We've built a rig back at the studio.
Let's cut back there now
and have a look at that rig.
So, isn't that fantastic rig,
I built?
So what are you up to today then Gordon?
- Okay, Gary.
So, we're going to look at this fantastic
rig you've built,
but we'll start where home networking starts,
where that connection comes into the house
and usually through internet hub.
In this case, we've got a BT one here.
A lot of people don't realize on the back
there's four yellow sockets
or the yellow on the BT one.
There could be a different color
on different company's routers.
So, usually they're labeled up as ethernet.
And from these plugs here,
you can plug other network and equipment in.
So you could plug your PC direct into there.
You could plug your game's console direct into there.
- So therefore we're getting hard internet connections
rather than using the WiFi.
- Yeah.
And as you said in the intro,
the easiest way to improve your WiFi
is to get some of that equipment
that takes loads of data off the WiFi network
and onto a hardwired system.
- [Gary] So, who better to explain the rig that I built,
then you Gordon?
So, what we got?
- The following good instructions, Gary.
So, what you've created here Gary,
is a setup that you might expect to build
in a residential home.
And this is the rig we're gonna to be using
throughout this series of videos.
But what you've got?
At the receiving end,
so the room where you want to put the device,
you want to keep the internet
on these wall plates,
RJ-45 wall plates.
And all of these are wired back a cable
from each one to an individual socket
on this patch panel that we've created
here from these Euro module components.
- [Gary] I know that you've got some switches are as well,
they look rather complicated.
What they gonna be doing?
- Thankfully, they're nothing to do.
If anyone should ever need some of these,
we've done these Gary to replicate some faults.
- [Gary] So, when we're testing our Cat Six cables,
we're actually gonna be able to simulate
some faults and show what happens to
the test equipment. You wanna do it now?
- Yeah. And we're assuming you've got them perfect
the first time around, so I've had to replicate
the faults just to demonstrate them.
- [Gary] So it looks like we've got quite a few
sockets in there, Gordon,
what's the thinking beyond that?
- Okay.
Well, my top tip,
wherever you put the hub
with all these data points come together,
you also need lots of regular power sockets
to plug devices into.
So, your router
and other networking devices
that build up as you build up a home network.
- [Gary] So, first fix would give us the Cat Six cables
would install as normal.
It's part of our first fix
and then obviously all the stuff we're seeing
in front of us would be introduced at second fix.
How is the internet gonna get
into our system now then?
- Okay.
So it's really quite simple.
Just think of it like you used to do
back in the days of telephone extensions.
So you have your, here's our four ethernet ports
on the back of our router.
It's quite simple.
Plug in there.
And then obviously these patch panels link to rooms.
So I'm then going to plug several.
I'm gonna take this out to say, a bedroom,
plug in there,
and then just replicate the process.
- [Gary] So I've now got a hardwired internet connection
to those faceplates in the rooms
within the installation now.
- Yeah.
And then obviously at the other end,
your device to plug in,
it's just the case so quite simply,
plug in and then plug this into the back
of a smart TV
or games console,
or anything else that you might wanna.
- [Gary] And then we've got hard internet,
reliable connections within each of those rooms.
- Rock solid internet connection.
- [Gary] We also said about improving
the WiFi in those areas.
What's in the series of videos
we're gonna look at to do that?
- Okay.
So in this one,
we are gonna look at this clever little device here,
that's hidden inside this outlet plate.
And this device here is wired,
hardwired to our internet router,
but the device itself
actually creates its own wireless network.
So you could even have
a dedicated wireless network
in particular rooms of the house.
- [Gary] All right.
That's really good for me, for like guest rooms
and things like that,
yeah?
Yeah. You might wanna set up a guest network.
You might own an office
where you might have guests in there,
or you might wanna,
if you wanna be really technical,
have a dedicated wireless network for
a child's network that you may wanna disconnect
at some point in time when you wanna,
actually wanna get them to bed.
- [Gary] That's a really good system.
However, there's only four RJ-45 connectors
there in the back of the router.
What if I needed more than
four points within the installation?
- Okay. Then you need to install something called a switch.
So here's a, a little net gear,
one we've found here.
So what this will do is
take an output from your home hub.
You go into enter the switch
and then you've gained an additional four outputs there.
- [Gary] So that gives you seven in total,
the three in the back of the router
and the others.
- Yeah. I mean these come in masses away
as you can grow A 16, 24,
but obviously you only need a connection
to each room that you're using.
You don't need to patch in sockets
that you're not actually using
with the connection on the other end.
- Okay. That makes sense.
We're also gonna look at the
terminating of Cat Six cable.
We're gonna look at the through RJ-45 ends,
as well as the ideal industries crimping tool.
We're gonna to look at a new range
of data plates from Cramp Tree,
in their instinct range,
as well as the patch app and go
in order to test our network.
What's else we should look at, Gordon?
- We've got something here
that looks like a water diviner.
But some say this can magically
extend the WiFi out into your garden.
- So making that another useful room around the house,
the garden itself.
- Yeah. And the clever bit,
this'll introduce you to a new
technology called power over ethernet.
So that's basically powering
devices using the network cable.
- So what you're saying there is
that I wouldn't need to plug that
into its own source of electricity.
You're telling me I'm gonna be able
to put the power effectively down
the Cat Six cable?
- Yeah. So that's an increase in technology.
You see a lot now use for
wireless access points,
CCTV cameras,
yeah.
Again, a useful piece of kit to enter the bag.
- So this is the start in a series of videos
that we are gonna produce on home networking,
which we hope will both benefit the electrician,
allowing upselling to electrical installations,
whether that'd be standalone
or within a rebar.
And also add a few things in there
that makes your life easier.
And we liked that Efixx.
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