I am redoing our basement...my wife's ex husband has the cat5 cable dropping out of the drop ceiling along the wall onto the floor.
I just set up a home theater system, ran my wires in the wall, attached the speakers on the wall...it looks clean, but this 1 wire, is falling out of the ceiling, just looks tacky.
While I was out, I looked at ethernet wall jacks, and noticed that, there isn't any wall jacks where the cable can just plug into...mount it, and plug in from the other side (like a satellite speaker wall plate would...banana plugs on both sides, and voila).
I know how to run the wire inside the wall, my question is...how do I attach the ethernet cable to the backside of the ethernet face plate, so I can have a small 3' section running to the computer, rather than having this ugly wire hanging from the ceiling down to the computer?
Everything I've read has me stripping the cat 5 cable, and attaching like colors to the plate...but I've also read that sometimes the colors on the plate don't match the colors in the ethernet cable.
I just set up a home theater system, ran my wires in the wall, attached the speakers on the wall...it looks clean, but this 1 wire, is falling out of the ceiling, just looks tacky.
While I was out, I looked at ethernet wall jacks, and noticed that, there isn't any wall jacks where the cable can just plug into...mount it, and plug in from the other side (like a satellite speaker wall plate would...banana plugs on both sides, and voila).
I know how to run the wire inside the wall, my question is...how do I attach the ethernet cable to the backside of the ethernet face plate, so I can have a small 3' section running to the computer, rather than having this ugly wire hanging from the ceiling down to the computer?
Everything I've read has me stripping the cat 5 cable, and attaching like colors to the plate...but I've also read that sometimes the colors on the plate don't match the colors in the ethernet cable.