I've been working with ethernet for at least 15 years, and this is the best explained video I've seen. Congratulations 👏🏻👏🏻
This is probably one of the most original, genuinely entertaining/informational, and well produced YouTube videos that I’ve watched for some time. Thank you!
I can't imagine the amount of planning, work, and editing that went into this video. Respect.
As someone who used to do all this for a living, I still enjoyed the heck out of this video and was engaged the whole time. I have made thousands of Cat-5e patches by hand and literally never knew the trick of using the stripped jacket to untwist them. I'm glad there's someone out there making this stuff easy for homeowners to understand and DIY.
It's actually pretty important to use Keystones instead of just continuing the cable out of the wall. For one, most in-wall rated cables are solid core, which means each wire is made out of solid copper. These have better distance performance and longer life, but are stiffer and can work harden and break if bent around a lot. Patch cables typically use stranded core, kind of like speaker wire, made up of a lot of small strands of copper per wire. Also, if you break a wire coming out of a wall, you could end up needing to replace it if say it needs to reach 4ft into the room and you broke it at 2 ft. Whereas with a keystone you can just replace the patch cable and all your wires in the wall are safe.
As someone who works in IT involving all this cabling, you did a great job explaining everything in really approachable ways to those with even zero experience. I also appreciate covering the options you chose not to go with, but could be relevant for others. Kudos to that.
I work in IT now but I worked as a infrastructure installer for several years, it brings a smile to my face seeing you do what was my job for 4 years
It's harder in European houses, but we can one floor connect thru under roof space (space between roof on house and ceiling of rooms) and other floor either attic or socle foliage
I've never seen those passthru connectors before. Very useful!
Who knew Quinn had suuuuuch good taste in interior design. That home is flawless. Practically my dream house.
11:09 - Dude that face in the darkness really caught me off guard.
Great video. I have been using unifi for a few years now and love the product. My house isn’t as old, but I too had crawl under my crawl space to run wire in my house. Love the creepy green eyes that appear in background (11:11) as you say the crawlspace isn’t haunted by Pennywise!
When he's first in the crawlspace, watching the eyes on the upper left slowly fade out was hilarious.
11:09 I thought I would find a lot of people mentioning it in the comment but apparently not
11:17 lmao at the editor's choice to put pennywise or something in the shot after that comment
This is super helpful! 174 years old 3 story 3000sq foot home here I ended up running just the cables to where I needed access points and then cables to my office so that I can have a hardwire work machine . Now my house is basically setup for decent 10gig in the office and 10gig to my AP!
“Uh oh, I’m a stud” pmsl. That’s a great Dad joke right there. Will defo be using that one.
this is such an underrated channel.
Congrats. That's quite a retrofit. You also saved yourself several thousand by doing it yourself ;)
@snazzy