When I built my house two years ago, I ran cat 5e wire behind all the walls I could ever imagine I would want a network plug. After the first two most remote locations, someone was good enough to tell me "Ya know, your not supposed to staple it up tight like that". In hindsight, I should have re-done those two locations, but I was hung over from my bachelor party the night before.
Now, two years later, I want to move my office into that room. Sure enough, neither of the two cable runs are good. Although both show continuity throughout all 8 wires, one gives me no network connection and the other reads limited connectivity yet never finds the network.
They are both stapled up tight, going around a couple of corners, so using either to pull a new line is out of the question. Is there anything I can do to possibly combine the two to try to get a single connection, or anything that might clean up the signal since I have continuity. Short of that, looks like I'll be running a new line down a different wall into the crawl space.
Now, two years later, I want to move my office into that room. Sure enough, neither of the two cable runs are good. Although both show continuity throughout all 8 wires, one gives me no network connection and the other reads limited connectivity yet never finds the network.
They are both stapled up tight, going around a couple of corners, so using either to pull a new line is out of the question. Is there anything I can do to possibly combine the two to try to get a single connection, or anything that might clean up the signal since I have continuity. Short of that, looks like I'll be running a new line down a different wall into the crawl space.
