I made this off-topic because this is a mod I'm making in my own home.
Many, many years ago, before I got into the wireless broadband business,
I added structured wiring at our house. This was before Open House,
Leviton, and others were making patch panels. In the corner of a back
room, I put in a "home built" patch panel using a pair of wall-mounted
12-position patch panels kind of like this:
http://fertyimg.pw/Intellinet-Cat5e-Utp-Wallmount-Patch-Panel-12-Port-Patches-Wall.html
This worked fine for what it was, but this is mounted near the floor,
and we want to use the room for something else now.
As it happens, there was space in the next room, and more at shoulder
level to put in an Open House patch panel with a hinged door.
The problem is that because the new patch panel is a little bit higher,
the existing cables will need to be about 30" longer. I would really
hate to pull about 10 new cables to get that little bit of extra length.
So I'm thinking about a simple, reliable way to add the roughly 2-1/2
feet to the existing cables. Would it be reliable to terminate the
existing cables with ice cubes, and just use a handful of ethernet
couplers? If I did that, would you do something to ensure that they
don't pull loose? Or would it be kosher to move the 12-position patch
panel onto a wall stud, and just plug the patch panel extensions into it?
Maybe something else?
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