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Originally Posted by Wormius
Yeah, I have resigned myself to having to cut a few holes for some exploratory work. I am pretty sure I will run into an issue trying to blindly route cable 50ish feet from where I want to terminate them. Not so much the cutting and patching drywall that I mind, it's the matching the paint on the wall so it doesn't look obvious.
On the bright side, I got my order in for cable, keystone, and wall plates so I am committed. Hopefully can start on Friday.
Didn't even know cat6a cable was available. Wonder if I should have splurged the extra $175 and gone with that over cat6. C'est la vie.
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Another story from my experience....
For whatever reason, I've only been successful at attaching an RJ45 (the male terminal) once. I just can't get it to work ever. I'm no sparky, but I've watched a million videos and such how to do it, but could never get it right (except once). I consider myself pretty handy. Maybe my crimpers were crap? I don't think I bought the cheap one.
Anyhow, my work around was to terminate the ethernet cable with the female ends (those were easy) and then I bought just little 1, 2 or 3 foot patch cables (have the RJ45 male end on both ends) to connect from the cable in the walls to the router on one end and the computer on the other end.
Hopefully you have better luck, but for whatever reason, attaching the male ends did not work for me. As a side note, I even went to a Fry's Electronics (huge, huge electronics place in the US) and went to their geek squad equivalent desk and offered the guys cash if they would put a male RJ45 end on a length of bulk cable for me. Those nerds actually refused saying that they could never figure it out either!
So beware of that issue that might pop up for you.