"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
05/12/2019 at 22:35 • Filed to: None
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"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
05/12/2019 at 22:35 • Filed to: None | 0
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I bought a long ethernet cable to run a wired network to the living room for all of the A/V equipment in setting up, as well as providing a new location for my HTPC. I thought it would be fairly easy, but I was wrong.
Drilling through the living room floor was easy, and the biggest bit I had was just big enough for the RJ-45 plug. Then I went to drill the hole in the back bedroom. At first it went quite quickly, right through the wood. Then progress stopped. When I went upstairs I found out why. Most of the house has wood floors on a wood subfloor, but the back bedroom has a concrete floor which came as quite a surprise. I found a shallow area of concrete near the door jamb, but couldn’t get through, probably running into a joist. So I went back to the basement to try it again with the hole I started earlier.
I don’t have any masonry bits, so improvisation was the name of the game. I did find a few narrow spade bits that seemed pretty sharp. They went right up through the concrete, and eventually I was able to use that large bit too finish the hole. Yeah, I’ll probably need to sharpen them before using them again, but it’s done.
The hole was still too small for the connector on that 100 ft cable, so I used a short cable without the snag- resistant connector to go through the floor, mating it up in the basement with a double female adapter thingy. Yeah, I might not get the full speed that I should get with a Cat 6e cable, but whatever - it’s just for watching TV. It’ll be fine.
ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
05/12/2019 at 23:49 |
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I have a 75ft Cat5 cable going from my living room to my PC. Its probably more like 20 ft. But hey the difference between 50ft and 75 was $2 iirc, so what does it matter.
barnie
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
05/13/2019 at 01:50 |
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Run the bare Cat-5 or whatever thru 1/4" holes wherever and crimp tips at each end. 1,2,3,6... Anyone who has tipped RJ-45s know that these are the pins to be concerned about. Cut to length + a couple feet and tip it! You’ll get all the bandwidth ya need in this day and age without the hassle of extra cable. Sheesh! (FWIW, 8 pins only useful if POE).
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Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
> barnie
05/13/2019 at 02:20 |
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Yeah, I should have done that. I even have a nice crimper/stripper set from my days as a network engineer. I thought that this would be a quicker way of doing it - two holes, run the cable and clip into place. But like so many projects, things don't always go as planned...