How hard is running ethernet cable through your house?
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As others have mentioned, yes, you can purchase cables with the RJ45 plugs on them. Similar to what you already must have connecting your router to your computer etc. You can purchase varying...
How hard is running ethernet cable through your house?
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Generally it isn't the best practice to run terminated (has rj-45 jacks on the ends) ethernet cable through your walls. It's easy to damage the rj-45 plugs breaking the tab off. Also, solid cable...
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sounds like a cable installer. I've done a few houses home and new. it's not too difficult if you're willing to get a little dirty and patch up walls. Wall patch kits (if necessary) from home...
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Typical rule of thumb is to number the outlets starting to the right of the doorway in a clockwise direction in ascending order in each room.
You also start with one room and work your way around...
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What is that supposed to mean?!
The only data rated jacks are either punch down tools or or tool-less keystone jacks (which most people don't have many nice things to say about). There aren't...
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:wave2: I Do! :D
I'll snap a pic one of these days...
In his link it shows the 110 C4's mounted to a pcb board that has the RJ's mounted to it.
They sell those for the Home systems, that...
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Can you buy a cable with RJ45 ends? Then I just run the cable to the router, plug it into the router, plug it into the faceplate, screw the faceplate to the wall, and plug in a normal ethernet cable...
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Yes, look at Monoprice.com
100 feet: http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10208&cs_id=1020814&p_id=2164&seq=1&format=2
75 feet:...
How hard is running ethernet cable through your house?
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Do I dare ask why you dont just buy a access point?
How hard is running ethernet cable through your house?
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My router is in the basement. My desktop computer is in a 1st floor office. I've really love to run an ethernet cable there. How hard is that? Who would I hire to do this if I didn't want to do...
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An electrician or low voltage cable installer (cable, telephone, network) can do it.
The going rate in my area (wash dc) is $75-$100 per run (50-100ft), terminated and tested.
How hard is running ethernet cable through your house?
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I've had ethernet cable run through several different houses. In most cases, it was pretty simple to run the cable.
Most of the time, it just involved strategically drilling a hole in one corner...
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another way ive seen it done is where one person taps the wall up near the ceiling so that the guy up in the attic knows where to drill.
ir remember one guy that wanted 2 outlets in each room, but...
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Find a Dish Network or Directv satellite installer that moonlights. That's pretty much all of them, because they need the cash. The sat companies have sucked their pay dry, just like a big old leach....
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Well, I'll give you points for originality! I can pretty much guarantee that not very many people would think of stuffing an alarm clock down a hole, and figuring out where the noise is coming from!...
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If your house is new you should be able to DIY fairly easily. If the house is really old, I might consider hiring a GOOD professional. I saw one old house where the installer ran cable outside the...
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Thanks for the tips everyone! I think this might be beyond what I'm willing to do myself.
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I ran it ahead of time in my house. Too bad my dad threw a shit-fit yesterday because he didn't understand how two routers can be connected to each other -_- so looks like its just WIFI for me.
I...
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Ok, I just didn't quite follow what you were talking about. I wasn't paying attention to the fact that you were talking about telephone wiring
I wish somebody would make a little plastic insert...
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My thoughts exactly. My box is crammed as it is. I can't see adding a patch panel and doubling the number of cables in there. When I want to rewire a jack from phone to Ethernet, I just pull the plug...
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I can't stand punch downs, personally. I think in a home setting there is no need for punchdown - why not just terminate with a jack? It would make it far easier to switch to a phone jack if...
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Personally.. I wired my house and put in punchdowns. I think it looks very messy running the cable and leaving it hanging out of a hole in the wall with the plug on the end.
If you don't feel...
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Gigabit is also out of the question.
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i was just talking about a dummy splitter with 2 female jacks on one side and 1 female jack on the other side inside the first outlet. so there is still a regular ethernet run to each room, at least...
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Why Cat5 at all? :confused: I can kind of understand 5e, but plain 5 and no 6?
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i give the cheaper option, as most people dont need anything above cat5 or cat 5e. plus i have near free access to miles and miles of cat5 and cat5e.
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Depending on your layout this could be cake or it could be a headache. If you have access to the termination equipment (ends and crimpers) then I'd say DIY. Otherwise, hire a local to do it for you.
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I did it as a 16 year old and I had no clue how to do it then. I basically got a couple wall outlets. cut out a hole and fished it down with a coathanger. I got about 50 ft cable cut from home depot...
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it's really easy if you have the tools. The biggest PITA is if you don't have termination equipment and need to fish a wire with "plugs" on the end. I recently moved our router/switch/ooma/tel...
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My dad is gonna help me fish the wire down to the basement next weekend, but I'm confused at how the cable connected to the face plate.
How hard is running ethernet cable through your house?
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I guess it depends on the layout of your house. Shouldn't be too hard to drill a hole through a corner in the basement, fish a wire, then run it to the desktop.
Not sure who you'd hire to do this...
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You mean the clear "Icecubes" on both ends...yeah? That's just a patch cord...and depending on where you go...you can get them upto 300 feet long.
The standard way is to use a jack at each end to...
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I just did this through another wall and added some jacks and coax outlet on a single faceplate. In the interest of time, I just ran to the local Lowe's (albeit driving would have been faster) and...
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When I run ethernet I charge $50 a run with a minimum of 2 runs and $5 each face plate. then i charge 5 cents per foot for cat5 or 10 cents per foot for cat 5e. i use a 30' piece of flexible...
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You can get stuff at RatShack...also at lowes and home depot as well.
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I get my RJ45 connectors from Home Depot, cable too if I have a coupon, otherwise online.
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I love it!
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Wait, so it doesn't split four wires onto one jack and the other four onto the other jack?
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nope, runs all 8 wires to both jacks with the dummy splitter, so only one jack can be used at a time else there will be collisions and it just wont pull down a LAN IP for either. stupid if you ask...
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IMHO, running it with connectors already on the ends is best. That way, when you move into a house and the moronic installer doesn't run all the cables to the wiring panel, you can just rearrange the...
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