At 06:21 AM 10/4/2009, you wrote:
Rewiring my new *cave* b4 sheet rock and decided to go ahead and run
cat5 to the corner of the cave closest to the house. Not going to
run to the house at this time. How do I splice cat5 ?
go to radio shack and buy a inline connector. Then put normal jacks
on the ends of the CAT5e and plug them together. Wouldn't be a bad
idea to do this in a accessible junction box.
My thoughts are a low voltage box on the outside wall but surely I
can not just put jack there. Also thought of just poking thru and
putting the jack on the inside. Or maybe just leave enough coiled
outside to make the run.
Is there a direct bury cat 5 cable. ?
I doubt it....there is a weather proof cable, but that is not the same thing.
Distance to house is only maybe 20'. Have setup a bridge router
but figure eventually need /want to hard wire.
fp
for just 20 feet why not just put it in buried 1.5 inch electrical
PVC. A bigger pipe will make it easy to pull the sweeps ( NOT elbows)
and you can easily add something else later if you wish, like
coaxial. You might consider buying some of that all in one cable.....
= phone, CAT5e, coaxial, fiber optic. Very expensive but it is just
20 feet....and if you measured 20 feet buy 40 feet.
