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Can I wire an 8pin double case fan into 2 x 4pin fan headers, or USB?

I have 2 x Delta 92x38mm EFB0912HHE Triple Blade High Speed Case Fan - Sleeved, which both have 4 wires which are spliced into an 8-pin connector, but only using 6 of the pins (2 are sharing 2 wires ...
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Can I safely run shielded Cat6A cable indoors without conduit?

I bought this cable to run PoE Cat 6A cables to a few cameras and access points around my house. I was not planning on running them through conduit, but I am not doubting if that is a safe choice ...
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Is it possible to interchange these two sockets since the cables in the wall look the same?

My Ethernet socket isn't working and I'm convinced it has to do with either the socket itself or the cable behind the wall. This picture of my wall sockets (the left the Ethernet socket, the right a ...
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Issue with network cable

We recently had a garden studio installed in our back garden and I asked them to lay a network cable (steel armoured) from the front of the house, where the main router is located, to the garden ...
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Is there any benefit to running the "last mile" of an ethernet connection that is in wall Cat5 (not 5e) with Cat6/7?

I have a mixed 2.5gbps/1gbps network with old cat5 in wall wiring. I have a 200ft or so run that is very convoluted and that I'm not willing to even try pulling a new cable through. The wall jack ...
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Can I ground a shielded CAT6a patch cable directly to a nearby 120VAC receptacle's ground wire?

I have a 35-foot long shielded CAT6a patch cable running between two double-female shielded keystones. There is no patch panel, this is a direct connection from one jack to another. One keystone ...
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Can a miswired ethernet cable destroy a client when connected to a POE switch?

This question is similar to Can a miswired UTP cable destroy a router? - except my circumstances are more specific. I have a client (A solax Hybrid inverter), where the installer wired the ethernet ...
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Powering USB Cable From Different Head

I Have a Mikrotik RB951UI-2HND router, and a Huawei E5577 Modem Wi-Fi with modded firmware so it can run without battery (directly from power source). So I want to connect the two together with USB ...
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Actual download speed different from online speed test due to bad wiring [duplicate]

My internet company provides me with 10 MB/s download speed, but sometimes my faulty ethernet connector caps it at 1.1 MB/s. When I reconnect the rj45 connector (sometimes it takes a few tries) the ...
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Not sure if the DSL splitter is wired correctly

I read the yellow wire and black wire are irrelevant, and what matters is the green wire and black red wire. There can only be 8 possible combinations but none works. Is there anyone who can give me ...
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Ethernet Wall Sockets - Wiring Issue

I have a strange issue with my home network I'm trying to fix. Please see the pictures below…. Any ideas as to why this isn't working? Thanks, J EDITS: Just to add a bit more information... as I was ...
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Cat 5 Terminal Wiring

I bought a house where most of the rooms (including my office) have been wired in with cat5 cable and they all run to the terminal block seen in the attached pics which is in the basement. Yesterday I ...
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Is it a bad idea to connect the network cables to the front of the patch panel instead of the back?

OK so I saw that just about all of the tutorials and HOWTOs say that an Intranet Ethernet spider web should connect to the back panel of a patch panel (on the top rack U), then follow-up using switch ...
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What are the effects of different wire lengths on a single Ethernet cable?

Typically the wire lengths inside an Ethernet cable are all relatively equal. I know there must be some slight variance between the length of the individual wires inside cable due to some twisting ...
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Fuse amperage for laptop PSU

I have cord that is rather short, so I found a longer one and wanted to swap the IEC [kettle lead] type. I checked the fuse to see if they are the same new one is a 5A & the existing one is 13A; ...
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