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Or just use a 110 and C clips. On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 1:50 PM Bill Prince <[email protected]> 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? > > > -- > > bp > <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> > > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- Carl Peterson *PORT NETWORKS* 401 E Pratt St, Ste 2553 Baltimore, MD 21202 (410) 637-3707
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