Extending cat5e - Help!
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Posted by Queue on August 6, 2005, 4:20 pm
Please log in for more thread options Any suggestions for resolving this problem as painlessly and cooperatively as possible will be appreciated... I just had an electrician run a indoor/outdoor cat5e from my office (in an adjacent building) to the basement of my home. I asked him to run the cable to a particular area in the basement and then leave me 20ft of cable so I feed the line upstairs to a small patch panel and router in a closet. Attempting to be helpful, he brought the line into the house and cut it off at the fusebox -- far short of where I needed the line. Apparently he thought that I should have the patch-panel and router there. (Of course, the panel and router won't fit in the cabinet that surrounds the fusebox, and there are no nearby outlets to power the router....) Do I need a special splice or other device to extend the cat5e? (I hate to make him rerun the whole line -- burying it tore up my yard and made a real mess of things.) Also, I think this guy is a competent electrician, but I question his networking skills. In my office space, he hooked up two RJ-45 jacks in parallel. (I'm not an expert... and I correct in thinking that each line has to independent and connected by a hub/switch device?) Can anyone suggest a resource for this guy...? Maybe a cheat-sheet for him to get up to speed on ethernet cabling so he can fix the jack problem? Thanks! -Queue P.S. Critical comments about the electrician are not helpful - I live in a smaller close-knit community where cooperation in working out problems is valued over angry words and threats. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Perkowski on August 7, 2005, 2:31 am
Please log in for more thread options Queue wrote: Than go buy yourself a patch cord that will reach whereever you are. thats the easiest way, not the right way though. the right way is to repull the whole run again! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Robert Redelmeier on August 7, 2005, 7:08 pm
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> I just had an electrician run a indoor/outdoor cat5e from my
> office (in an adjacent building) to the basement of my home. This is _very_ bad practice. Any nearby lightening strike will impose ground differentials that will fry equipment at both ends. > I asked him to run the cable to a particular area in the
> basement and then leave me 20ft of cable so I feed the line > upstairs to a small patch panel and router in a closet. > Attempting to be helpful, he brought the line into the
> house and cut it off at the fusebox -- far short of where You can install a small surface mount jack, and plug in a 20 ft patchcord. > I question his networking skills. In my office space,
> he hooked up two RJ-45 jacks in parallel. (I'm not an > expert... and I correct in thinking that each line has to > independent and connected by a hub/switch device?) No, you cannot daisy-chain RJ-45s! Not with ethernet anyways. You can, however, share a sheath and use two pair to each RJ45. There are different ways to do this, some less ugly than others. -- Robert | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Queue on August 7, 2005, 1:00 pm
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Robert Redelmeier wrote: > > I just had an electrician run a indoor/outdoor cat5e from my
> > office (in an adjacent building) to the basement of my home. >
> This is _very_ bad practice. Any nearby lightening strike will > impose ground differentials that will fry equipment at both ends. Can you tell me more about this? The cable is heavy indoor/outdoor, protected in side a conduit and buried about a foot underground. How could this be done differently? Thanks! -Cloy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Perkowski on August 7, 2005, 8:58 pm
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Queue wrote: > Robert Redelmeier wrote:
> >>
>>>I just had an electrician run a indoor/outdoor cat5e from my
>>>office (in an adjacent building) to the basement of my home. >>
>>This is _very_ bad practice. Any nearby lightening strike will >>impose ground differentials that will fry equipment at both ends. >
Basically, the cable should be buried deeper per NEC code and should be
> > Can you tell me more about this? The cable is heavy indoor/outdoor, > protected in side a conduit and buried about a foot underground. > > How could this be done differently? > > Thanks! -Cloy > electrically bonded/grounded. If a lighting bolt strike say a tree near the wire it could get onto the wire and fry out your equipment. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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> cooperatively as possible will be appreciated...
>
>
> I just had an electrician run a indoor/outdoor cat5e from my office (in
> an adjacent building) to the basement of my home.
>
> I asked him to run the cable to a particular area in the basement and
> then leave me 20ft of cable so I feed the line upstairs to a small
> patch panel and router in a closet.
>
> Attempting to be helpful, he brought the line into the house and cut it
> off at the fusebox -- far short of where I needed the line. Apparently
> he thought that I should have the patch-panel and router there.
>
> (Of course, the panel and router won't fit in the cabinet that
> surrounds the fusebox, and there are no nearby outlets to power the
> router....)
>
> Do I need a special splice or other device to extend the cat5e? (I hate
> to make him rerun the whole line -- burying it tore up my yard and made
> a real mess of things.)
>
> Also, I think this guy is a competent electrician, but I question his
> networking skills. In my office space, he hooked up two RJ-45 jacks in
> parallel. (I'm not an expert... and I correct in thinking that each
> line has to independent and connected by a hub/switch device?)
>
> Can anyone suggest a resource for this guy...? Maybe a cheat-sheet for
> him to get up to speed on ethernet cabling so he can fix the jack
> problem?
>
> Thanks! -Queue
>
>
> P.S. Critical comments about the electrician are not helpful - I live
> in a smaller close-knit community where cooperation in working out
> problems is valued over angry words and threats.
>