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The Chase Is On: Running the Cable

The permutations and combinations of runs depend on the physical layout of your home, of course, but the ideal way to run cable in your home is to find a way to lay the cable in a straight line between the concentrator and each computer on the network. Sounds easy, doesn't it? Good luck! The opening through which you wind and wend the cable is called a chase. The chase may be inside a wall, in a hollow space above the ceiling, along the baseboards of a room, or in a combination of these opportunities. If you're lucky, you can find a straight-line chase between the concentrator and each computer.

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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