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Ganthos
By Ganthos
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I want to run a cat5e cable through a wall. I was wondering if I paired up two wall plates with a cat6 connecting if it would work, should I just cut a hole in my drywall and shove a simple coupler in the hole? I assume a cat6 coupler is backwards compatible with cat5e. Also the reason I don't want to run the cable itself straight through the wall is the fact I don't want someone to be able on yank on it and it rip out of my PC.

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run it through the wall and on the other side (where your PC is) install a RJ45 Cat 5e networkpatch things (dont know how they're called in english so here's a picture)

 

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Yes It would work perfectly fine, 5e and 6 have the exact RJ54 which is all the compatibility you need. At long as the manufacturer didn't f**k up the cable sequence then there will be no problem. 

1 min in he explains how it doesn't matter: 

The only difference in the cat6 cable compared to the cat5e is the insulation. Cat6 has more of it to prevent crosstalk.

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Cat6 is cool if you can get it but it's not 100 percent required. A lot of the hype comes from rated or certified specifications for enterprise/corporate requirements. I have 16points through my house. All cat5e and no problems with sync or throughput issues. Trunked/aggregated dual gbit from my NAS woo!

You'll be fine :)

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Cat6 is cool if you can get it but it's not 100 percent required. A lot of the hype comes from rated or certified specifications for enterprise/corporate requirements. I have 16points through my house. All cat5e and no problems with sync or throughput issues. Trunked/aggregated dual gbit from my NAS woo!

You'll be fine :)

I really wanted to put in a gb switch in and have the whole house wired but atm I am just a room renter so I don't have fix it up privileges. I would love to be able to learn how to set up the switches when I finally have a chance to do it. If you don't mind some giving some tips/things not to do etc.

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I really wanted to put in a gb switch in and have the whole house wired but atm I am just a room renter so I don't have fix it up privileges. I would love to be able to learn how to set up the switches when I finally have a chance to do it. If you don't mind some giving some tips/things not to do etc.

Sure I'd be happy to give you my thoughts. How many connections are you looking to have around the house...?

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