For my house (I actually have a couple short runs i need to do this with) Id check the punchdown on the leviton, those had a habit of losing theit tightess if they get moved much and either reterminate it to a keystone and then terminate an rj45 on on end of the extension and keystone on the other
On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 2:07 PM Jay Weekley <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? > > > > > > -- > *Jay Weekley* > *Cyber Broadband > * > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. > https://www.avg.com > > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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