Thanks for that. Good to know about the conduit! I will probably run more 20-25mm with one Cat 7 & one or two cat6.

@Sidestep , that's some quite odd cable! How can it be Cat5E with only two pairs? Weird but otherwise cool cable.

olivernz:

 

@Sidestep , that's some quite odd cable! How can it be Cat5E with only two pairs? Weird but otherwise cool cable.

 

I don't know what it's used for - bought with an auction lot of 6/3 NMD90, this - and boxes of several other weird network cables were included.
Tried to sell it on Kijiji (online marketplace) but no takers so off to the scrapyard it goes..

it looks like its for POE cameras, etc rated to 100mbps speed

Jase2985:

 

it looks like its for POE cameras, etc rated to 100mbps speed

 

Ahh - good sleuthing, that'll be why OP said "I came across a site that said they ran cat5E for all cameras and IoT stuff because it was 22AWG"
It must have been manufactured just for that purpose - probably why it's ended up in the surplus auction.

Sidestep:

 

Jase2985:

 

it looks like its for POE cameras, etc rated to 100mbps speed

 

 

Ahh - good sleuthing, that'll be why OP said "I came across a site that said they ran cat5E for all cameras and IoT stuff because it was 22AWG"
It must have been manufactured just for that purpose - probably why it's ended up in the surplus auction.

 

Well apparently theres a new standard for single pair ethernet on the way so it might still be useful!

Sorry yes Cat6A would usually be 23AWG, but its  still bulky cable and not always shielded or foiled. Good to use unshielded patch leads at the outlet end in my opinion, to prevent earth loops on the shielding. If you do use Cat6A or Cat7 then you MUST earth one end of the shielding for it to be effective. Cat6A UTP (unshielded) has problems with picking up crosstalk at 10Gbps if its in nice tidy bundles of parallel cables, so using Cat6A represents a choice of either crosstalk on UTP or difficulty fitting chunky 180degree FTP (shielded) jacks into flush boxes and tight wall cavities.

Jase2985:

 

i ran 32mm conduit through my slab when i built my garage. i was able to get 5x CAT6A and 1x CAT5E through it at a distance of about 18m (through the conduit) you wouldn't really want to pull it much further than that.

 

I have extra cable legnth coiled up under the house so if i do want to move the position of the wall jacks i can.

 

here is a picture of the setup in the garage

 

The bunch on the left go to the house, the middle and right ones are for the network cabinet, alarm cabinet, camera's and internal garage network ports.

 

I hope your slack loops aren't close to the ground where rats can munch on them.

Presume you have a surface-mount data cabinet planned? Maybe you have a big ethernet switch, wondering why you didn't get a flush-mount cabinet...

Jase2985:

 

it looks like its for POE cameras, etc rated to 100mbps speed

 

Unlikely, it's actually 7x30 AWG stranded.

webwat:

 

I hope your slack loops aren't close to the ground where rats can munch on them.

 

Presume you have a surface-mount data cabinet planned? Maybe you have a big ethernet switch, wondering why you didn't get a flush-mount cabinet...

 

Slacks are hanging off the floor joists.

There is going to be a 600mm wide wooden cupboard there which will hold the patch panel, switch and some other networking equipment. Flush mount cabinet would not have been big enough for everything.