I'd like everything to be in a cabinet built into the wall in my utility room at one corner of the house. i have cat6 to run all throughout the house. Structured wiring box?

what are the best products for in house cable management at the main location? i'll have about 16 cat6 lines and about 6 cable lines. 4 from the outside to inside as the lines coming in split off to 6 locations (to hook up time warner and/or satellite).


i'm mainly looking for the metal cabinet that goes in the wall between studs where the cables come through that has a door on it to lock.

any other tips helpful.

10/27/2008 2:50:01 PM

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10/27/2008 2:54:40 PM

I always just ran the cables on the dirt and drilled a hole at the edge of the carpet behind furniture. Worked great, took 15 minutes tops, and I've never given them a second thought. You can waste a lifetime fishing wires into walls.

10/27/2008 3:11:21 PM

^But that wasted lifetime (and be honest, it's really not THAT time-consuming) makes the outcome look SO much better with a proper faceplate on the wall.

10/27/2008 3:58:09 PM

me and my cousin are running the cables. we are doing keystone plates/jacks. we're just trying to decide on how many connections and what connections per room.


right now we're thinking running 1 cat6, 1 cat5e (phone), and 1 rg6 quad to each port, 2 ports per room minimum. all will be in wall.


i have a clean crawl space that should make the job a little less difficult than a slab/ceiling install (hopefully).

[Edited on October 27, 2008 at 4:20 PM. Reason : ]

10/27/2008 4:19:40 PM

make sure you have the right drill bits before you get started drilling into/out of the crawl space.

10/27/2008 5:22:32 PM

You can see my thread above. I need to update it with some pictures. I would consider using a small rack for your closet. I used a single spaced cat5e rack, but I wished I would have had another one for rg6 lines and put it inside the house. Right now I have about 17 rg6 lines on the outside of the house that I'm trying to organize in a weather proof box.

Basically, I did 4 port keystones with:2xrg6 and 2xcat5e in the major rooms. For Home Theater rooms I put one on each of two walls on opposite sides of room. My dish network receiver uses 4xrg6 lines: Incoming signal duplexed, outbound to second TV, an OTA antenna for free HD channels, and an antenna for the 2nd TV remote. Some of the smaller rooms removed one of the rg6 modules.

Also, when drilling, make a pilot hole with a very small bit or better yet a long piece of piano wire. Drill the pilot hole first to make sure you did not guess wrong. A long piece of piano wire can be flicked and the vibration can be heard to locate it under the house etc. This works best when you have two people.

The home depot/lowes Levitron sp? boxes are nice, but pretty expensive. The modules are expensive too, so that is why I did not want to use them.

[Edited on October 27, 2008 at 6:38 PM. Reason : .]

10/27/2008 6:37:15 PM

I am definitely jealous of any homeowner with the ability and patience to do this.

10/27/2008 6:48:34 PM

I'm just jealous that kruznby apparently has more than one theatre room :p

But yeah whenever I'm ready to get a house I already have this stuff all planned out in my head. I can't wait to put something together.

10/28/2008 9:33:47 AM