cat 5 connections
During construction, our contractor ran cat 5 cables from the entry in the wall down to two other rooms in a straight run. He said that cablevision would come to pkace the cat 5 connectors on the ends of the lines. But when cablevision came, they said they do not touch cat 5 lines unless…
During construction, our contractor ran cat 5 cables from the entry in the wall down to two other rooms in a straight run. He said that cablevision would come to pkace the cat 5 connectors on the ends of the lines. But when cablevision came, they said they do not touch cat 5 lines unless you are a business. Does anyone know a electrician/internet person who could come and connect up several lines in our two stories? It would involve placing the cat 5 connectors and possibly a splitter at several locations (I think). Thanks
My day job is certified system engineer, and I could fix you up.
Above posters, by and large, are correct.
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check http://www.thetinkerswagon.com. I used them for IT wiring. Its a small company and the owner does this kind of stuff himself.
We used a guy name peter and he was great.
Give him a call and he can come and check what needs to be done.
718 407 4574
tell him Anat from Kent Av sent you.
Good luck
You’ll need an Ethernet switch (many home office routers such as those with integrated WLAN AP functionality have multiple integrated switched Ethernet ports) as eman1234 says. However, they are quite inexpensive. The closest thing you can do to splitting with 4-pair Cat. 5/5e/6 wiring is to terminate two pairs on one jack and two pairs on another jack RJ-45 for Ethernet or RJ-11/12 for standard telephone connections although the former will work for telephones, too.) It does not meet EIA/TIA specs, but will work fine for the distances you are talking about. The standard is based on a max of 90 meters plus 10 meters of patch cords per connection, so you will be fine if you decide to cheat and run two connections within one cable.
However, if you do not have enough pairs or cables where you need them, there is no problem in using an Ethernet Switch as an active repeater. This is how large corporate networks are built.
In terms of terminating the cables you have, if you are not easily intimidated, you can do this yourself. Hubbel, Leviton, and many others make face-plates with snap in RJ-45 connectors on the back that have color-coded insulation displacement connections that require no tools except something to cut off the outside cable insulation and excess wire. A small wire cutter and screwdriver to mount the faceplate may be all you need.
10 years ago I would have swung by and done all of this for you in about an hour, but have gotten too busy with my own renovations. But drop me a line and perhaps I can give you some tips.
andru3@hotmail.com
splitting coax is horrible practice since signal strength degrades at every split, often to the point of requiring signal boosters to be installed at the split
eman is right. Cat 5 is always home run. Coax should be home run too, but contractors and electricians are lazy and will daisy-chain splitters inside the walls — a terrible practice.
Also, your contractor was feeding you a line about Cablevision (and making a mistake by running cat 5 instead of cat 6, but that’s another story). But if you are at all technically adept, buying some keystone jacks and wall plates is pretty straightforward — they’re a couple of bucks a piece from Monoprice or other sellers.
you do not split cat 5 connections every run must be a home run to the switch or router