Hey guys, I'm on the verge of wiring my home. Looking for a solid network instead of wifi. House was built in 95 and I'm not comfortable walking through the attic so i was going to run all the cable through the crawl space. I need some advice on how to pull this off... would really prefer to drill holes through the sole plate of the wall; into the crawl space and run cables.
Here is my current setup:
coax cable from the internet company comes into the NE corner of the house. This is in my 9 year old daughters bedroom; so she now has a cluttered corner consisting of her computer, cable mode, and wireless router.
I'd like to push the existing coax back into the wall and extend this through the crawlspace so I can relocate the modem and router to a coat closet in the center of the house. From here i want to run Ethernet cable back out to various rooms of the house. I'm thinking four ports in each of the three bedrooms, four in the garage, four in the living room and two more two port plates in a couple other locations. A total of 24 jacks.
I think I've got the equipment identified:
Cisco Gigabit Switch
Cat6 Cable
I still need to grab some gang boxes, jacks, and face plates.
I just need to know how to best approach drilling through the sole plate. The previous owners appear to have installed some coax cable in a couple of the bedrooms and the living room. I was hoping to be able to use those locations and just run the new Ethernet through those existing boxes, add the jacks and go on. But Im not sure if i can drill through the bottom of the gang box already installed AND the sole plate to be able to feed the cable into the crawlspace. There are some rooms where i will need to install new boxes for the Ethernet, but i want to minimize the damage to Sheetrock as much as possible. This is why i thought reusing the existing coax boxes would be best.
I can possibly get pics for anyone who might like to see anything from the above; just let me know.
And thank you in advance for any discussion/input/advice.