Networking / Beginners

Cabling within a room

If you put the concentrator in the same room as one of the computers (or if all the computers on your network are in the same room), you don't need to drill holes in walls or floors.

Put the concentrator next to one computer. Connect the closest computer to the concentrator with a short length of cable.

Then run a longer piece of cable from the concentrator to the other computer(s). Run the cable along the baseboard, not across the floor.

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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