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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 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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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
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Just to add a bit more information... as I was ...
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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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How to connect FIOS in new (to us) apartment to PCs and devices
My roommate and I just moved into a new apartment and had Verizon FIOS set up.
We assumed that since there were several Ethernet outputs across the apartment that we would be able to just hook up ...
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Convert RJ11 to RJ45
I have random RJ11 wires in house which have been cut off as they were used for the master socket and the master socket was in an awkward place. And I was wondering if it was possible to convert both ...
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Terminating solid Ethernet in a pull out rack
How should I terminate solid Ethernet cable in a shallow rack?
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I've wired my house with solid CAT7.
It terminates in a double gang.
The wiring cabinet can fit a 300mm equipment rack
The ...
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Is it possible to wire my house with a cat. 6 cable through a one inch conduit pipe
I have 10 rooms across three floors in my house and i want an Ethernet connection in all of them. Problem is, there is only a 1 inch conduit pipe going through the walls and i can fit maybe 2-3 wires ...
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Cat 5e Wire Next to 12V
I'm currently running a consumer grade router from inside a closet, and want to switch to business grade equipment. So the plan is to place a wireless access point on the wall outside of said closet ...
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Data hub setup for a structured wiring panel
I have a structure wiring panel in my home and the bedrooms and living room all have ethernet jacks. All the coaxial cables in the panel are labelled as: 1, 2, 3, fp1, fp2, and 2 cables called emarc )....
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2 Pair Ethernet not working
I have one 4 pair cable. The brown pair is being used for a telephone (that is working). I took the green & orange pairs and punched those down to a CAT6 block and added a CAT6 connector at the ...
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