If you want it sort of standards compliant then you may be able to use a
110 block as a splice of sorts.
Bill Prince wrote:
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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*Jay Weekley*
*Cyber Broadband
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