[Hidden-tech] know anyone who can pull ethernet 1 floor to home ofc& test the thruput?

[B. Kimo Lee]

Hi David,

Not knowing how handy your are with tools and DIY stuff, this sounds  
like a mighty generous offer from Mark. If you've only got one  
workstation to wire-up, no walls or boxes/wall plates to install as  
Mark noted, and you have access to the crimping tool, it would be a  
pretty simple thing to do as a DIY project.

The only slightly complicated thing is matching up the correct  
sequence of the 8 color coded strands of wires in the cat-5 cable. Not  
exactly brain surgery, but it must be in the right order -- and Mark  
has a tester. You just strip the wire in the crimping tool and line  
them up in the proper order in the connectors and then crimp. And it  
sounds like Mark will guide you through it.

Other than that, making the cable runs look nice in a home environment  
is your other concern. You can use a cable stapler or some other cable  
holders (Radio Shack) that nail in, to keep the cables in place.  
You'll need a fair amount of those. Staples are a little less obtrusive.

Good luck,

Kimo



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On Nov 6, 2009, at 12:29 AM, Mark at Techeffective.net wrote:

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> The hard part is getting your partner to agree to the  
> hole. : ) ....The rest is a just short run of Cat 5 between floors,  
> sounds like no walls involved so no boxes and wall plates in the  
> mix, just a hole in the ceiling and floor above. You don't need an  
> electrician for that David.  I've got a linkmaster cable tester, and  
> the RJ45 cable end crimper. You want to borrow them?  I can even cut  
> you the exact length of wire from my 1000 ft spool. I've made 100's  
> of custom cables, it's really easy after the first 1 or 2. Let me  
> know and you can stop by for a lesson and pick up the toys........I  
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> From: hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net [mailto:hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net 
> ] On Behalf Of 'David Morf'
> Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 9:41 PM
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> Subject: [Hidden-tech] know anyone who can pull ethernet 1 floor to  
> home ofc& test the thruput?
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> Need a little advice…  On the 2nd floor of our home, I’ve got a  
> TM402P Touchtone telephony & data modem from Comcast, and a Data- 
> Link 524 router modem.  I need to shift my home office to a better  
> work space in the house.  To do this, I need to run an Ethernet  
> cable directly through a hole drilled between the floors (not  
> threaded through the ancient plaster wall) from the 2nd floor to the  
> 3rd floor, do the end clips, and then test the results for good  
> throughput.  I need hardwire linkage for best throughput, and can’t  
> move the modem and router to the 3rd floor because that would kill  
> wireless to the 1st floor (I’ve been advised by my 29-year partner  
> in life that it’s a family decision that there shall be no holes  
> drilled down into the 1st floor for network cables).  Comcast said  
> that a licensed electrician should do all the Ethernet work.  Is  
> that information correct, and does anybody have suggestions for who  
> might do that work in the college-streets area of Holyoke?
>
> Thanks very much,
>
>        David
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