Hello All,
I recently bought a new house. It has a small room where all of the networking stuff/servers/etc are supposed to go. Ethernet cord exists from here to most of the rooms in the house. The problem is that only about 4 inches of ethernet cord sticks out from the ceiling in this new small room (in the other rooms of the house it is ok, it goes to jacks near the floor). So it is no long enough to nicely connect to whatever hardware I decide to put in there.
I hooked up a switch near the ceiling which is working, but the switch is hanging in middle air off the ethernet cables, and the cables are so short I can't put the switch on a table or rack or anything.
My laymen opinion is that it would be nice to have the relay the ethernet cords and make them longer, but the house is pretty large and I think this is impractical (involves putting lots of holes in walls, all over the place). Does anyone have any suggestions for a good long term solution? I'm planning on setting up a pretty serious hardware room in there, but having a switch hanging from the ceiling isn't a good start...
thanks for all of your recommendations.
Kind regards,
quanttrade99z
I recently bought a new house. It has a small room where all of the networking stuff/servers/etc are supposed to go. Ethernet cord exists from here to most of the rooms in the house. The problem is that only about 4 inches of ethernet cord sticks out from the ceiling in this new small room (in the other rooms of the house it is ok, it goes to jacks near the floor). So it is no long enough to nicely connect to whatever hardware I decide to put in there.
I hooked up a switch near the ceiling which is working, but the switch is hanging in middle air off the ethernet cables, and the cables are so short I can't put the switch on a table or rack or anything.
My laymen opinion is that it would be nice to have the relay the ethernet cords and make them longer, but the house is pretty large and I think this is impractical (involves putting lots of holes in walls, all over the place). Does anyone have any suggestions for a good long term solution? I'm planning on setting up a pretty serious hardware room in there, but having a switch hanging from the ceiling isn't a good start...
thanks for all of your recommendations.
Kind regards,
quanttrade99z
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