Substituting 'cable' type cable for coax

[k.jacko]

+1 for rick1980's post above!

I don't have any joints in my cable drops to each room, i just have them plugged straight into the kit that it serves.
Ideally i would have put wallplates in, but i slightly misplanned by plan and decorated before cabling.

Also on the power, yeah, separate it with the correct trunking if they have to be close to the data cabvles.

[Rick]

have u considered surface mounted boxes for the wall plates ? either that or cut the wall paper (assuming u have papered) with a sharp knife and chisel out the brick to sink the box. With care it is possible to get a very neat job. You cant tell that the box has been put on after.

Just food 4 thought.

[k.jacko]

Yep, got some spare RJ-45 boxes from an installation job i did at the weekend at a friends office. Wall mounted with 16x25 trunking (which fits about 6x cat5e cables in) doesn't look too obtrusive at all.
TBH, i can't be bothered to do it. All our walls are drylined (the way it was built by the canadian air force back in the 50s) and is skimmed and painted by yours truly, not papered, which depending on how you look at it could be easier or harder. Can't sink a box in without channelling/sinking the cabling too though .

Never actually terminated a RG-59 cable into a backbox. I would have thought its just as easy at cat5e termination?
I start work building my house extension next week, so when i cable that out, i think i'll go nuts and redo each room with proper boxed termination.

Thanks for the renewed inspiration rick, you've just added hours to job that i simply don't have, lol!


Come round for tea some time, the mrs will love you!

[Rick]

Sorry Jacko. Don't mean to add extra work lol

However the good news is that terminating a rj45 wall plate is even easier that a jack plug. It's kind of the same as a telephone point. I managed to get a BT punchdown tool from an engineer and it wakes terminating the boxes easy, just use the same colour code as you do for the jacks to avoid confusion. RG59 is terminaded in the same way as standard coax the core to the centre pin and the sheathing to the plate.

If the walls are dabbed i.e boards stuck to the wall fishing cables down can be tricky but not impossible as it is with a fully plastered wall. If its studded they easy peasy, all you need is a set of cable rods and a bit of practice with them.

Know what you mean about having the time though. Why can't wives understand that sometimes a couple of pints down the pub takes priority over getting that next job sorted. he he he

You just know i'll get slated for that comment. Sorry girls

[k.jacko]

Thumbs are still sore from terminating 16 boxes and about 20 odd cables on saturday. Plus the ones i had to redo after showing my friend how to do it and him getting them wrong. Yes punchdown tools are a saviour. So are cable testers, but i didn't have one with me on saturday which would have been flippin handy i can tell you.
As an I.T. Manager part of my job is data cabling etc, so i have no issues/worries there. I just can't motivate myself to move all the computers etc, to put the boxes where i want them. Especially with the little amount of spare time i have.
Most of my efforts are channeled into getting my damned htpc tv services to function properly.....gaaah!!

Aaaannnnyway!