Adding cable faceplates
If you run cable through walls, you can end the cable run at the wall using an Ethernet socket that's attached to the wall with a faceplate, as shown in Figure below. Then, you just need to run a small piece of cable from the computer to the faceplate. You can buy multi-outlet faceplates, which you'll need in the room that contains the concentrator.
To use a faceplate to create an Ethernet socket, pull the cable through the hole in the wall and use a cable stripper to remove about an inch of insulation from the cable. If the cable is a patch cable, cut off the connector first. Then insert the wires into the socket and push against the socket to seal the connection (these are similar to electrical connections that just snap into place). Attach the socket to the faceplate and attach the faceplate to the wall (pushing the wires back into the wall). A punch down tool helps solidify the connection between the line and the wall jack.
In this tutorial:
- Installing Ethernet Cable
- Ready, Set, Run
- Ethernet cable has many aliases
- Concerning the concentrator
- Deciding Where to Put the Concentrator
- Concentrators are environmentally fussy
- Concentrators are innately powerless
- Distance Depends on What You Choose to Measure
- Handling Cable Correctly
- Connecting two patch cables
- Making your own patch cables
- The Chase Is On: Running the Cable
- Cabling within a room
- Cabling between adjacent rooms
- Cabling between nonadjacent rooms on the same floor
- Keeping your drill holes in the closet
- Cable that's all walled up
- Cabling between Floors
- Adding cable faceplates
- Using floor cable covers
- Curing Your Network's Growing Pains
- Don't add another router
- Getting into the Zone
