Hanging on the telephone

Well done BT, we got there in the end.  We have a telephone line, we actually have our own pole outside the house!  The telephone line was the cue for Liam and myself to wire/patch in the network, which is what we did this weekend.  Most of the house now has a working ethernet network.  Upstairs also has the default BT wireless network.

The BT router is plugged into the wall socket as normal and then connected to a switch.  The cabling from each room terminates at the switch, this shares the internet connection through the house.

All of the gubbins is then captured in a data cabinet, which will look better when the glass door is on and the floor is tiled.

In a room it looks like this

So, hanging a smart tv on the wall will hide this but mean the tv can be cabled without any of the wires being visible and doesn't need a wireless internet signal for online content.