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Installing Ethernet Cable

Installing Ethernet network interface cards (NICs) provides only half the connections needed for computer-to-computer communication.

Now you need to let the NICs communicate with each other. You accomplish this connection via Ethernet cable.

In this tutorial, I tell you everything you need to know to connect NICs using Ethernet cable.
When you're finished, you have the fastest, most reliable network connectivity available.

In this tutorial:

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