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.