wiring my house with CAT5

[Nico0020]

I have wireless, but there are somethings like my Dreamcast and original xbox that are not happy with. I am also setting up a media center back end that needs wired. Anyways I already have one cable running in my attic, so that is not a problem, I know how to do that part. My problem lies in the wall mount I want to install. Basically as of now I have two ends of my cat5 cable hanging out of two walls. Rather than splice and put together a wall mount, I am trying to find a "dual sided wall mount". I dont know what that would actually be called, but that is the best way for me to describe it. I have been able to find them for phone lines, but I can't seem to find ethernet cables. Basically it is where the end of the cable in the wall just jacks into a female cat5 port, and on the other side of the wallmount there is also a female cat5 port. This would make my life a lot easier, as I hate splicing and wiring that stuff. I can't seem to find this anywhere though. Does anyone know where I can get a wall mount/plate like this so I dont have to try so hard. Thanks!

[Wagh]

Honestly Cat5 is only 8 wires (iirc). It's pretty hard to get it wrong.

[Ex-Cyber]

Kind of expensive, but

http://www.radioshack.com/product/index ... Id=2102882

plus

http://www.radioshack.com/product/index ... Id=2102537

plus

http://www.radioshack.com/product/index ... Id=2103652

If you want to search other places for this kind of thing, the magic words are "keystone" and "coupler".

[Nico0020]

cool, thanks. I saw these at radioshack last night, but they were a bit expensive. I think I saw em at fry's electronics though which would have em a lot cheaper if I did see em there. I'll check it out, thanks!

[Caboose]

Yeah, I think couplers would be your best bet. Nice and clean too.

[Nico0020]

i found the couplers n such that i needed. thanks!

[S. Thompson]

Just make sure you don't use crossover cable instead of standard CAT5.

- Fuzmeister