Blimey this was a hot one. This morning I managed to get the trunking on the cable in the garage coming from the study so that is looking a lot neater now. This afternoon I decided to attack the loft cabling. I pulled 9 cables through from the loft to the spare room, then pushed them through the hole in to the garage. Once they’d been punched in to the patch panels at either end, my cable tester informed me I’d only damaged one cable… not bad going for me! So eight cables between the garage and the loft ready to be used in the future. I also screwed the loft patch panel to the rafters and tidied up the wall cabinet in the garage, labelling all of the port so I know where they go.

I also wall mounted an 8-way surge protected power supply underneath the cabinet – I figured it would avoid taking up room inside the cabinet and also be safer for when I plug in transformers if I leave the power outside. Tasks for another include: labelling the loft patch panel, moving the server and switch to the cabinet and patching everything in, installing a wireless access point in the loft, moving my backup NAS to the loft, and sorting out those holes in the spare room.

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Tags: DIY, Gadgets, Network Diagram, Project: Networked House