You may remember discussion of Phase I from before (and if not you can click that link to see it). Well, the time has come, 90% of the needed equipment is here (waiting on the bracket to mount a patch panel to the plywood), but there’s no reason I can’t start by making some holes in the walls. So this evening that’s just what I did. As of right now, the first wallbox is half done. Still one more in the office to do after that, then there’s the living room and shack. And that’ll be about 90% of the house wired for Ethernet :> I’ll also want to replace the one phone line in the kitchen, and may want to eventually run one or two wallboxes to the kitchen/dining room, and I’ll definitely want one in each bedroom. But the upstairs ones can wait longer, since they’ll be more difficult and there’s no real need for them yet, as can the kitchen/dining room. So that initial 90% figure will be about 100% of the ones that I really want to have done anyway.
Pictures will follow when the job is complete (in fact, I haven’t taken any yet, but not much has happened so far except a hole in the wall and 3 CAT5e cables coming out of it).