You have just got a new LED TV and a home entertainment system. It’s quite natural for you to want to enjoy the 5.1 surround sound, but your fun is marred by the unsightly wires running across your floor to the back of the room. That is why you need cat 5e cabling for your home entertainment system.

Cabling with a Cat 5e can really help you get rid of pools of cable on your floor or the nest of wires behind your audio/video cabinet. When it comes to AV wire management, choosing the right cable for your home is often a major concern- Cat 5e or Cat 6? Both the cables are suited in their own right, but Cat 5e should be your choice if budget is your concern and Cat 5e can also be used to connect the A/V source components in your home theater, to other rooms in the house. Not only that, CAT-5e cabling is effective for connecting home theater to your computer LAN and through this LAN to the Internet. MP3 servers, PVRs and other audio setups that play internet radio stations of MP3 files in your own computers, come with CAT-5e connectors.

Now on to Cat 5e cabling- if you are coming down from the attic, then you need to drill through the top plate by tying a nut to a strong string. While drilling you need to be careful and drill between the studs. To know how far you have drilled in the wall, you must mark one-foot divisions on the string beforehand. Then you must tape the cables to the string and you need to snag the string by using a hooked piece of stiff wire.