Will a 60-foot run of CAT-5 ethernet cable work?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 01:22:59PM -0400, Yanni Chiu wrote:
> I thought the box would be better too, for much the same reasons. I  
> installed a surface mount box. But for a single cable run (the "grand"  
> plan was for more than one), I don't think it's worth it. And, I think  
> making reliable connections at the box is harder than it looks.
>
> You can get much the same effect by using a two-way splitter, and  
> attaching it to the baseboard. I only thought of this later, sadly. The  
> one problem I see with using a patch cable is that you have to drill a  
> bigger hole to get the connector through.

Many plates simply have a jack on both sides, so the connection is really
simple to do.

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Len Sorensen
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