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reply to watts3000
Garage's are nasty areas to even think about placing networking equipment into. If you are going to do it, look at your equipment needing to be replaced at least 3-4 years down the road.

reply to watts3000
I would also have to say pass on the garage idea. No heating/cooling in most garages plus dirt, dust, etc. It will do more harm than good for your equipment.

My suggestion would be a laundry room if it's inside your home, or a master bedroom closet. The last company I worked for used to do SOHO wiring and we would always place the panels in the laundry room or master bedroom closet.

We did have a few locations that we provided service where the wiring was installed by a 3rd party and often they would put the SOHO panels in the garage or over doors. The equipment that was in the garages would fail often from the heat, dust, and dirt.

reply to watts3000
If you follow the advice at packetpusher 's link, use a patch panel and patch cables instead of putting plugs on the drops directly like he did.

reply to MJimLay
Laundry room is a horrible idea. TOO much moisture from doing laundry, especially if you dont have a newer dryer with good seals. The moisture will create corrosion/mildew inside the electronic components. (switch etc...)

reply to watts3000
Well, the first thing to do, is map the house out and see ware the utilities come in. I would also get your self a good 2d cad program to draw every thing out.

Link:
»www.plm.automation.siemens.com/e···ex.shtml

Its free and it has more features then AutoCad Light.

Now once your done laying out ware every thing is, the next step is, what rooms to wire and ware to put the network stuff. Once you figure this out, the next step is, how to run the wires.

Now since you don't have a basement, you are in the same boat my buddy was in with his duplex. After we mapped it out, we wound up putting a wall rack and patch panel in his garage. It was the best place since it was too small to park a car in and it was vented to his central air as well. It also gave us a straight shot to his attic, which made running things a bit easier.

We mounted every thing on 5/4 plywood, which work well. It gave him enough room to run and work on every thing.

If we had to do it again, I would of had him buy a rack like the one I linked instead of the wall mounted one.

Link-Rack:
»www.dantraknet.com/category/33

Wall mount Patch bracket:
»www.monoprice.com/products/produ···format=2

Patch Panel:
»www.monoprice.com/products/produ···format=2

We used these to mount the Ethernet wall plates. They worked really well.

1 Gang Low Voltage Mounting box
»www.zackelectronics.com/product.···ct=17641

2 Gang Low Voltage Mounting box
»www.zackelectronics.com/product.···ct=17642

reply to watts3000
here's what I did...

»My surge suppressor and Leviton Structured wiring.....

asjamias nice picks what room of the house did you do that in. I was talking to some wiring guys and they stated that they like bedroom closets for such task. FlexBaud
do you have any pics

reply to watts3000
I have my equipment in my garage and have had no problems with heat, cold or dirt. With regard to dirt and dust if you maintain your equipment you should have no issues. I used to have my equipment in the basement of my old house and I never had an issue even though it would get very dusty and dirty since the house was very old.
We built a house and had all of my wiring terminated on a patch panel mounted to a 24 inch swing rack with a shelf for my router and switch. The coldest it has ever gotten in my garage was 44F and in the basement of my old house it would get 37F. I'm in the northeast so it can get quite cold here. I must say I do maintenance my servers and network gear every 6-9 months to clear out the dust that did accumulate. Also my home is only a year old and is very well insulated. Have not had a failure yet. Beats having thsi equipment humming along in my office.

reply to watts3000
the wiring panel is in of of the bedrooms upstairs, currently not being used. when I finish my home theater which is just on the other side of that wall, all wiring will be relocated with a simple turn around of the panel.

reply to watts3000
I wired my whole home but it was under construction and it already used CAT5 for phones into a wiring box in the basement. This is the second time I've done it and I did drops to each bedroom upstairs and the loft for a total of eight drops. I did six drops in the office and four behind the TV on the first floor. And everything is terminated into the basement. I also moved all the CAT5 phone they laid and put it into the switches since I don't have a phone. I also did coax for TV.

I got a server rack from work which is down in the basement with a 16 port and 24 port rack mount switch in there and a few desktop PCs hanging out. Works like a champ. Now in Colorado it's insanely dry so I don't have a moisture problem and my basement is a large walkout type don't a dark dank basement. My basement is obviously controlled with the heat/AC so it stays nice. My garage can get rather cold/warm so I'd avoid that. I'd stay someplace inside that's climate controlled.
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