Since the basement of the new house is completely open and undeveloped, I thought this would be the perfect time for future proofing. Since I don't intend to move again, I wanted to run some Cat6 network cable to the rec room, what will become my lab/office, the living room, where the WiFi range extender will live, and two other "office" spaces. I already have a box of cable from another project, so aside from keystone jacks and some plates, there's no other costs. I have a 2.5G switch right now and being able to just swap for a 5 or 10 seems pretty attractive since a NAS box features in my near term plans.
The weird thing about the new place is that they ran double runs of Cat5e to a few random spots and never hooked any of it up. Some of it ends where I want hardwired network anyway. I pulled back three sets of runs of it to run my Cat6, and aside from one line that had a couple gnarly kinks it looks pretty good. Kind of feels like a waste of time to pull out the rest, aside from some OCD screaming "NOOO! IT MUST ALL BE THE SAME!"
Am I actually just wasting time pulling out the Cat5e?
The weird thing about the new place is that they ran double runs of Cat5e to a few random spots and never hooked any of it up. Some of it ends where I want hardwired network anyway. I pulled back three sets of runs of it to run my Cat6, and aside from one line that had a couple gnarly kinks it looks pretty good. Kind of feels like a waste of time to pull out the rest, aside from some OCD screaming "NOOO! IT MUST ALL BE THE SAME!"
Am I actually just wasting time pulling out the Cat5e?