Computer cables and Wi-Fi router

Home builders (and even worse: renovators) are hardcore junkies when it comes to patch panels and Cat.7 cables. With medium-sized companies, it's still tough going, and much more often grown cabling remains. Private users also dominate the topic in electronics forums.


Well then – please: I am curious about your explanation(s).

Look in the ISO standard or google for 5 minutes. It is a fixed term with little room for interpretation. Even Wikipedia is good for a start.

Look in the ISO standard or google for 5 minutes.

Is it very bad if I "alternatively" settle for 26 years of professional experience in this field? I would have preferred if you had personally explained to me within five minutes where, in your opinion, I had not understood the topic. I would definitely have learned more from that than from Wikipedia.

Structured cabling is a term from professional building outfitting on a medium to large scale and has no place in the private sector. Whatever your professional experience is, which I will definitely not doubt, it will hardly lead to a redefinition of this term or the relevant standards. In a single-family house, you want to run all outlets to a central point and then, if done well, install a central patch panel there. That is pretty much the opposite of structured cabling.

Structured cabling comes into play when unstructured deployment (as usual in single-family houses) is no longer possible due to limited cable lengths and the whole system must be segmented and made expandable. I have somewhat less hands-on professional experience than you, but overall I am surely responsible for a four-digit number of years and tens of thousands of square meters of structured cabling on several continents—whatever that contributes to the debate... [emoji3]

However your professional experience is, [...] it will hardly lead to a redefinition of this term or the relevant standards.

Why not? - that's called the normative force of the factual.

In a single-family house, you want to run all the outlets to a central point and then, if done well, install a central patch panel there. That is pretty much the opposite of structured cabling.

And exactly that IS structured cabling. Although appropriately rudimentary, of course, but that simply results from the low complexity of a single-family house, where even floor distributors would be like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. A single-family house typically also consists of only one fire compartment. A theoretical next emergency stairwell at most 30 m away would already be on the neighboring property.

Can you maybe continue your discussion elsewhere via private message? That doesn't help the thread starter in any way. Something like that just ruins the thread, no one feels like reading anymore and with so many replies, nothing constructive comes from outside either. A shame for the topic.

Could you maybe continue your discussion somewhere else

Or preferably not at all. I didn’t ask via private message for that reason, because I would have appreciated a comprehensible alternative explanation in the thread.