[PLUG] Cat 5e wiring

[Bruce KIlpatrick]

Fred James wrote:
> Bruce KIlpatrick wrote:
>   
>> All,
>>
>> I am trying to run cat 5 cable from my router to two other rooms.  I 
>> have the wire pulled, spliced together, and am having trouble making 
>> both cables work.  I have tried resplicing, new wire, and new ends for 
>> the wall plates.
>>
>> I realize this isn't Linux related (except I run Linux in my house).  
>> Email me off list or on...just looking for some pointers.  Google turned 
>> up lots of books for sale. 
>>
>> What trick of the trade am I missing here?
>>
>> Bruce
>>   
>>     
> Bruce KIlpatrick
> I am not sure what you mean by "spliced" but I think what you may have 
> to do is two runs - that is one cable for each room (running parallel is 
> OK, but I think "splicing" is out).  Is that a problem, or have I missed 
> something?
> Regards
> Fred James
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Fred,

I have a plug in one room for a feed point.  I have two other wires all 
connected together.   One feeds a bedroom and one runs to the living 
room.  So, I came from a wall plug (feed point), I then took three cable 
ends and connected three same colored wires (using round smash type 
connectors like the phone company used), then ran the other end of two 
cables to different rooms.

Does that help paint an understandable word picture?

Bruce