@R1D2,



Note that grounding is through the metal jacket of the plug, not necessarily a separate ground wire


I believe you were referring to this type of connectors right ?





Is it finally safe to say, that we could use F/UTP CAT 6 with this shielded connector (picture above) and use patch panel with grounding ?  (both ends)
If we have Patch Panel grounded, do we still need Switches to be grounded ? 

Please, consider at least ISO/IEC Cat.6A components for up to 10GbE (100 meter) in the future

@R1D2 


The reason, why we don't use it simple:

We don't have it here O_O

I called almost 10 companies that supply Internet Cables, most of them have Cat 5E, some have Cat 6, only 2 have Cat 6 F/UTP.

Please remember, we don't have Amazon or any other big online retail store, Ali Express usually takes 2-3 month to deliver + taxes (not all companies willing to deliver here).

In other words, if we had everything available we would just use them, but we have very limited supply here, thus hard to find something specific, if this not used in mainly.



P.S this is our normal socket, that we use everywhere, unlike in USA it does not have grounding.



 

@Boriy 

@nek

By the way, what type of cable did you use in your hotel ? You said it was Cat 6 wonder it was UTP/STP or FTP ?

Cat 6  U/UTP,  gigabit switches with auto negotiation i get 1000 from core switch to floor switches 

Hey guys,

It's been a long time and not sure, if this discussion is still going on or not, but I thought I just keep some updates here:

There are some changes in our topology and plans:

Our hotel has 6 floors and switches will be installed in 2 locations, on 2nd and 5th floor.

The 2nd floor location will cover 1,2,3 floors and the 5th floor will cover 4,5,6 floors. By cover I mean, cables will be distributed from those floors. 

Instead of 1 AP wall in each room, we decided to install 4-5 AP in our corridors, each covering 3-4 rooms.
In that case, we'll run 2 cables in each room. First goes to VoIP Phone and 2nd goes to Smart TV.

We're gonna use F/UTP Cat 6 cables everywhere indoors, still, each cable length will be less than 55meters (180 feet). 

So your rooms voip phone and smart tv will be connected to switch and your wifi coverage from corridors APs this should come way cheaper i believe.

Is it better to have 1 switch for 3 floors instead i.e a switch for each floor? What about cable lengths...

@Nek 

That's right, after some calculation we decided it would be better if each wired device goes directly to Switch.

In that case, we'll have some benefits, including:

Each device will have its own wire connection to switch, if our wall HD fails, that room would lose its VoIP Phone connection, and Smart TV would lose its internet connection and also guests inside the room, might have trouble with Wi-FI, since they need to connect to AP, that's in a different room.

Using 5 AP in the corridors, instead of 15 in each room, might provide us with less interference from other AP.
It's just we still don't know how Wall AP will handle Wi-Fi and PoE to VoIP and Ethernet to Smart TV, so dedicated Ethernet cable to each device might be easier to manage.


That would be great to have a Switch on each floor, but unfortunately, we don't have enough space on each floor for switches, so we need to combine them.
 I talked to electrician, he's fine with that. He said, that would be not hard work to do and he can organize everything. 

@Boriy  let us know how it goes your electrician is confident and knows thats good, you know how everything goes in the establishment, once you open you could be maintaining and updating on your own.

Credits to all for teaching us here, to @mobb but especially to  @R1D2 lots of learning by a tech genius!