Pull plenty of cable If you need to cut the cable??”for example, so that you
can pass it through a hole in a wall or a floor??”allow plenty of extra cable
to get around unexpected snags and to give you enough cable to route and
punch down at the far end. If you end up with a cable that is several feet too
long, you can cut the surplus length off and turn it into a patch cable. But
if you end up with a cable that??™s several feet too short, you will either need
to adapt the network design on the fly or redo the whole run with a longer
cable.
Treat the cable gently Try to avoid folding the cables or putting sharp
bends in them, as doing so can reduce the speed at which they transmit data.
When pulling cable through a wall or along a conduit, have someone feed
the cable in at the other end to reduce the tension on the cable. Rather than
pulling cable around two corners in a single action, pull it around the first
corner, and then pull it around the second.
Running a cable down through a floorboard (or out through a baseboard), through the basement,
and then back up into another room can be an easy way to get from room to room.
Step 5: Punch Down the Cables
Once you??™ve pulled the cables to their destinations, punch them down into the wall
plates. Follow these steps:
If the wall plate is the kind that attaches to a box (sometimes called a wall
wart), punch a hole in the box, and then poke the cable through it.
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