In wall cabling.

[rivercom9]

Does anyone know how to install network cables in the walls so that the network cables are not exposed in the house like in walkways and such?

[Jon]

You'll need to either find a crawl space in the ceiling above and let it drop down, find a way to pull it through from different outlets, or get a claw hammer and go to work.

[rivercom9]

What about putting RJ45 Jacks into the walls? Is that possible?

[Jon]

Of course, but you have to have cable to attach them to already in the wall.

[rivercom9]

Yeah, thats one thing that I'm thinking about. How do you attach cables to the RJ45 Jacks? Does anyone have any pics or how-tos?

[trey_w]

the easiest way is to run it during the building of the house

my dad had his house built 2 years ago and he wired Gigabyte connections through the house

and you could wait for teh 5Ghz 802.11a wireless

[Jon]

Here's a diagram of which wires go where. I've had this page saved forever...

[rivercom9]

What about on the RJ45 ports that would fit into the wall?

[Jon]

Then you would do it the other way around. Just do everything backwards according to the chart.

[rivercom9]

Are there any building codes that I have to follow in order to run cabling throught the walls of my home?

[Crash893]

part of the cable is send and the other part is receive

like to phones you hold up together if you hold them both up right the receive and receive will both be together and the send and send with both be together

so to fix it you ned to make one phone up side down

thats what a cross over cable does. the send coms out on the recive side and visa versa

they dont cost anymore than reuglar cables and there are even little clips you can put on to the end of reualr cable to make them cross over

or you can buy a cheap o 100 mb hub and that will do all this for you and you can add cables in the future if you get more computers

[klosters64a]

I'm sure that you need to meet electrical code for running the cables. Cat5 is very low power so code for it can't be too stringent. The challenge is to avoid messing up what's in the walls already. Fish tape looks like a must!

[Jon]

Originally posted by rivercom9
Are there any building codes that I have to follow in order to run cabling throught the walls of my home?

Only major one you have to meet is to use plenum grade cable. I don't think you could find any that's not plenum grade anymore so that shouldn't be a problem.

[rivercom9]

Whats fish tape and how do I use it to run cabling through the walls?

[-=HN=- Wild9]

now believe me that in a little expensive, unless you can crimp your own cat5 cables , and its a pain in the arse to do, im working on it in my house , of course im lucky, i have an attic and a crawlspace.

[Fightingpiper]

What I found to be the easyest way to run cables without digging into my walls was to run them through the cold air returns down to my basement where I have my cable modem and router. If you need a jack in the wall just put one beside the cold air return vent and viola youve got a nice and neat looking wall jack. This doesnt work if youve got hot water heat though:eek: :D

[MrOOBiLL]

I'm old-fashioned, i just drilled holes through my walls :cool:

[Diggrr]

If you have more than 2 computers on this network, a hub is highly recomended. They don't cost much, and save hassles with crossover cables.

About any CAT-5 cable that isn't grey is plenum rated. Blue or yellow is the most common plenum rated colors. It's called plenum rated because large stores and malls use the drop ceiling space as part of the air handling system (plenum ceiling), this type cable is rated to be hung in that ceiling without gassing the occupants to death if a fire should break out. Teflon is the main ingredient in the sheath, so it's also easier to pull the cable around corners and through holes.
Don't make any bends tighter than 1" radius and don't hang within 2" of an electric line.

If you have carpeting, just poke the cable into the small gap under the baseboard for horizontal runs, then down to the basement or up into a wall for vertical runs. 1/4 inch drill bits work good.

You can get the cable and the jacks at Radio Shack or the AT&T store in the mall. The jacks will be color coded so you can't lose. Home Depot also has a surprisingly good selection of wire, jacks and tools for phone work. (CAT-5 is the 8 conductor cable)

Fish tape can be found at Home Depot or an electrical supply house. It's a 1/4 wide steel ribbon on a reel. It's used to fish down into a hole or wall cavity and pull the cat-5 to you. You do have to have access to the end of the tape to hook on the wire. I personally use a chain. I drop it down into the wall cavity from above, and use a magnet in the jack socket hole to retreive it for hooking on the wire.

Hope this helps some...Your friendly local AT&T service man.