So I've been in this house since last Oct. There were a handful of network cables in the walls, but I had to add a few more to go to additional places. All the network cables, both ethernet and coax, come together at the top of my attic. Oh yeah, and all the network cable ends were bare... like they didn't have any ends on them. So I crimped RJ45s onto them and connected them into a switch in my attic.
Problem is, network equipment is only rated to go up to 113 F, and my house is in TX. So running my network junctions in the attic was never going to be a permanent solution. I'd been thinking about this for months. Actually for awhile I was leaning toward putting a mini-fridge up in the attic and running the network equipment inside that... but I was concerned about moisture building up, so I decided to go with a more conventional solution.
After studying over the construction of the house for the last 6 months, I decided the best course was to extend all of the network cables from the attic down into the upstairs hallway and install a network junction there.
I over-built the junction quite a bit. I'm currently using 5 ethernet lines, so I ran 12. Similarly, I'm using 1 coax line, so I ran 6. This way I can add additional lines easily... if I can get it into the attic, I can get it to the junction in my hallway.
