Running a Cat6 cable through the wall?

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CGCINC

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I am running a Cat6 cable from my router upstairs to my Blue Ray player downstairs. The cable that I bought has terminals on the ends already so I'm wondering if there is a wall plate that will let you plug into the fron And back with seperate cables?
OR, do I need to cut one end off the cable and hardwire it?

Thanks for any help or links!
 
One suggestion if you ran the cable and if its long enough buy a blank cover and drill the hole big enough to reach the computer and done. I did that upstairs. Then again i bought just now a cover for the basement. has a square hole and a leviton cat 5 jack. Ya push the mount into the hole then snap into the square cover then plug in the cat5 cable. done. about $10.00 for cover and plug. Home Depot.

Its another splice kit.
Oh well..........I will get er done.
Now my question is whats the best way to strip it? (maybe with my teeth).
 
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Something to remember if rewiring is that the wire is cross wired at one of the ends. Meaning that cable from router to devices is crossed wired (2 of the wires are switched), this is for noise cancellation. For cat wiring just google "cat cable wiring" and there will be lots of diagrams.
So this means if there are 2 wires involved the short one would have to be a straight through. If 3 cables then are crossed is correct.
The only time (for the most part) staight cables are used are from router to modem. This is the main reason a cable is always included with the router.
I look at it as master and slave devices. Master to slave needs crossed and any other configuration is straight through.
Just thought I'd throw this in as I ran into this and the wrong wiring will work but with disconnection and speed issues and cause much heart ache trying to trouble shoot. Would be nicer if it just didn't work at all..
 
Pipes said:
Something to remember if rewiring is that the wire is cross wired at one of the ends. Meaning that cable from router to devices is crossed wired (2 of the wires are switched), this is for noise cancellation. For cat wiring just google "cat cable wiring" and there will be lots of diagrams.
So this means if there are 2 wires involved the short one would have to be a straight through. If 3 cables then are crossed is correct.
The only time (for the most part) staight cables are used are from router to modem. This is the main reason a cable is always included with the router.
I look at it as master and slave devices. Master to slave needs crossed and any other configuration is straight through.
Just thought I'd throw this in as I ran into this and the wrong wiring will work but with disconnection and speed issues and cause much heart ache trying to trouble shoot. Would be nicer if it just didn't work at all..
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Not true. The only time a crossover cable is required is between 2 pc's. Any other time a standard Ethernet cable can be used.
 
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