Daisy Chain or Home Run CAT5E?

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...very clear; and I'm with you. Let's promote the standard practices of the industry. We won't get anywhere if we do it the way any DIY would.

Ahhh! That's what I like to hear! We are professionals and know better. We can't be doing work like DIYs and jackleg trunkers.

-Hal
 
smo said:
Yes, I agree - always do home runs. It is the standard, and for good reason. Among the reasons to do so are:

1.) Higher reliability. If one wire gets damaged for some reason, the whole loop is not lost.

2.) Greater flexibility. You can use those wires for more things. For example, if there were two jacks in a room, you could use one jack for data, and the other for voice. Can't do that if they are all daisy chained.

3.) Future Upgrades. Our communications infrastructure is ever changing, and you never know what the new standard may be. With VoIP getting so popular, many people may soon remove POTS lines altogether and simply use all wiring for data.

4.) Phone Systems. If the homeowner ever wants to install a phone system (You know, like business phone system with voice mail & extensions, etc) they will need each line to be a home run as well.


There are many other reasons too. Like the others have said, it is the datacom standard. Daisy chains are gone from the industry.
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I could not agree more.

I would also recommend running (2) cables to every outlet for maximum flexibility.
 
fredmr said:
I'm having a new home pre-wired...and I just found out that the CAT5E I was running to certain rooms is all daisy chained together. My intent was for home networking -- is CAT5E daisy chained of ANY use? If not, should I just save money use the standard CAT5 instead? Or are there any advantages to still using CAT5E rather than CAT5?

Again, I wanted to use this for home networking or FIOS or whatever the case may be...but it seems from what I've read that unless it is "home run", I shouldn't bother.

Thanks for any info!
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You cannot use daisychained wiring for normal home networking. I cannot imagine anyone competent installing it this way to be used for that purpose.

Now, if they just used that cable for wiring up your phone lines, it is quite usable when strung together in that fashion for that purpose.
 
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