Q: Im on the Ethernet cable to run from the basement of my house to the second floor. I plan on running all the cables in the wall to the attic, then they all fall together into the basement through a wall all the way down. Any problems with this?
Also, what kind of cable do I need? CAT5 is normal right? and what is the difference between stranded and solid cable?
Thanks.
Best Answer: Dude! That IS epic!! 8D
I don't know if you'd overload your power supply, but if you plug too many things into one outlet yo're likely to fry said outlet! That's… a bit of a fire hazard right there. 32 inch CRTs will probably be okay. I'd be worried at anything larger than that, like maybe widescreen!
On the other hand, you can always rent a generator or two. Yeah you know what, best do that one. You can connect to more than one power source, and I'm sure if you can afford 16 360s you can easily rent a few generators lol
Re:Make sure that your home won't ever be inspected for electrical code violations too… some states don't allow Joe Schmo to add even Cat5 cable to their house infrastructure without a electrician's low voltage license (Florida, for instance). Of course, who's going to tell…?
Re:I second the Cat5e. Gigabit over Ethernet cards can be had for about $50 now. The switches will be affordable soon. Do you need Cat5e to run Gig over copper? No, but it doesn't cost much more to do it right.
Re:Use 5e instead of 5 if you can. Don't run your cables parallel to any power cables for any great distance…mucho noise.
You should be good to go!
Re:Thats kinda what I did. I drilled a hole in the attic on the wall with the ventstack for the bathroom and then feed a string with a bolt on it down into the wall. Someone dangled it around in the wall and I drilled the wall and made a hole large enough to run a couple cat 5e's and it's worked great since. Why not use cat 5e? It's not much more expensive and it is basically the new standard since gigabit can run on it I believe.
Re:Sounds reasonable to me… it's pretty much the exact same thing I did, and it's worked for a year and a half now!
Regular cat5 is fine. For the wiring in the walls you want to use solid cable. The properties of solid cable allows for runs of ~90m (with 10m going to the stranded patch cables on either end).
Make sure you get some fish tape 
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