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Cabling between adjacent rooms

Cabling your network is easy if your computers are located in adjacent rooms on the same floor because you only have to drill one hole between the rooms. Put the concentrator in one room and run one length of cable between the concentrator and the computer. Run another section of cable through the wall to the computer in the other room. You need to drill only one hole, as shown in Figure below.

Cabling between two adjacent rooms requires one drilled opening
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In this tutorial:

  1. Installing Ethernet Cable
  2. Ready, Set, Run
  3. Ethernet cable has many aliases
  4. Concerning the concentrator
  5. Deciding Where to Put the Concentrator
  6. Concentrators are environmentally fussy
  7. Concentrators are innately powerless
  8. Distance Depends on What You Choose to Measure
  9. Handling Cable Correctly
  10. Connecting two patch cables
  11. Making your own patch cables
  12. The Chase Is On: Running the Cable
  13. Cabling within a room
  14. Cabling between adjacent rooms
  15. Cabling between nonadjacent rooms on the same floor
  16. Keeping your drill holes in the closet
  17. Cable that's all walled up
  18. Cabling between Floors
  19. Adding cable faceplates
  20. Using floor cable covers
  21. Curing Your Network's Growing Pains
  22. Don't add another router
  23. Getting into the Zone