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Where to buy wall plates for LAN Jacks

Kelemvor

Kelemvor

Lifer
I want to add soem LAn jacks to a couple rooms in my house. owever I can't see to find a good place to buy wall jacks. Do they make any where I can run a standard patch cable through the wall and just plug it into the back of the wall plate and then have a converter or sorts so that on the front of the plate it also takes a standard patch cable?

If anyone has any decent links, I only need a couple but don't know where to look.
 
No, no. I don't need ends to crimp my own cable. I have plenty of those at work. I'm looking for a wall plate that can take a patch cable in the back (in the wall) instead of having to put each wire on the little prongs. Since I already have tons of patch cables, I'm looking for a way to add a wall jack that doesn't involve anything more than just plugging in an existing cable to the back. Does that make sense?

Basically instead of using keystone jacks like picturse here: http://www.9thtee.com/networkingts.htm

I'm looking for something that would just take a patch cable on both sides and eliminate screwing with more wiring since I alreday have patch cables to use.
 
That's more what I was thinking of. But those sure stick out far. Maybe I'll just do it the other way. *sigh*

Hmm. Guess I'll have to see what I can scrounge up at work. heh heh.
 
Just cut the ends off of what you have now and stick normal keystones on. You can get a cheap little punch down tool for like, $1 and you'll have done the job right.
 
I think we have ap unch down tool at work so I'll just make some up there. Just gotta see if we have any of the plates and keystones or not. TIme to go digging in the LAN Closets.
 
You probably can find some sort of adapter to use patch cords - but it's not recommended. Patch cords are stranded cable, spec for station to station wiring is solid conductor for better performance and less signal loss.

Lowes and Home Depot both carry jacks and wall plates. Many online vendors as well; I've used Smarthome.com in the past.
 
the link jack sent you. they dont stick out far. they are flush to the face plate. the view you see of the cable, is the rear view, the part that is in the wall. this is exactly what you wanted.
 
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