if your house or your landlord's house isn't wired for networking there are a
variety of ways to get an internet connection to the place where you need
it power line Wi-Fi the problem with these Solutions is
that they're just not as
good as a good oldfashioned cat 5e the
problem with a good old fashion cat 5e is that sometimes it is nearly
impossible to get it from where your internet connection comes into the house
and your network switches to where you want it to be without creating either a
tripping Hazard or in my case a wife
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run an Ethernet cable from my networking closet on the Second Story down to the
first story where my media center and my TV are in order to eliminate the
tripping and wife hazards though we're going to be taking it outside so to
speak and running the Ethernet cable along the siding on the outside of the
house however before you embark on a project like this there are some
considerations number one is mapping out where exactly
your entry and exit wounds are going to be and we'll show you some simple tricks
for how to find exactly the right spots to drill the next one is figuring out
how long your run needs to be to find a balance between the shortest possible
run which is always good for Signal integrity and optimizing your Aesthetics
as well as the durability of the cable if your run goes way across a very sunny
south-facing path it might not last as long even if you're using a UV rated
exterior cable we'll show you how to Anchor your cable to wood as well as
brick or concrete and finally we'll show you how we're terminating the jacks on
both sides so it not only works well but looks professional let's begin with a
rundown of everything we're going to need for our job today first of all
we've got 100 ft of cat 5e cable that we paid about 50 bucks for why did we pay
that much I'm glad you asked it's because this is outdoor rated cat 5e
which means that if it is in direct sunlight it's not going to pretty much
immediately break down the way that an indoor cable would next we've got the
wiring diagram for our Twisted pairs as well as some RJ45 connectors to
terminate both ends of the cable we've got a crimper to make that whole thing
happen and then when it comes to actually putting holes in the house to
run the cables through we've got an
impact drill with a couple of bits so the larger one here and this is a 38 in
bit is going to be for the cable itself
and then we've got ourselves a uh cocking gun you know what job is
complete without the to make sure that the hole seals and doesn't actually
leak water into the house which would be bad and then we have a second bit and
this puppy is a 3/16 inch bit and this one is for the plastic inserts that
we're going to use to run our cable straps so these are little Cable
Management Ties on the brick and car Concrete where needed in order to make
our run nice and clean now we've also got some regular wood screws here these
are just some Robertson head wood screws as well as some more straps for where
we're running the cable along the wood and finally we've got ourselves an
electric screwdriver as well as one of
these handy dandy little mounting plates
for where we're going to put the jack that is going to come out of the wall
the one thing we are missing because we need to do a run to the store is a
female to female piece that goes on here where we
can run our terminated Jack into the back of it and then we can plug our Jack
into the other side and run it to the TV or a network switch or whatever else as
we went along we realized there were a few more things we needed a measuring
tape a marking pencil a drywall saw a
hammer and of course safety glasses now
we know that the downstairs connection needs to go through this wall but if we
were to measure it from the outside it would be easy to overlook things like
that my living room has a sunken floor and we could end up at completely the
wrong height or the wrong distance away from the wall so to make sure that we're
drilling at the correct height we actually need to take things inside for
our measurements so from in here we can decide exactly where it is that we want
our Jack to come out so I'm kind of thinking a little off to the left of
this power outlet right about there so the first thing we need to know is is
the height so we go okay a standard wall Jack has its bottom about 12 in off the
floor well exactly 12 in off the floor in a perfect world so we're going to aim
for about 14 in here so we go ahead and
make a little Mark on our wall at 14 in
then we find a landmark that is common to both the inside and the outside of
the house so in our case we can use the bottom of the glass on this window and
measure that to our 14in Mark so it looks like about 19 and2 in the next
thing we need to know is the distance along the wall fortunately once again we
have an easy Landmark because we can actually see the brick on the outside of
the house which is what we'll have to measure from when we're out
there so doing some somewhat approximate
yes this isn't quite perfect but is good enough for our purposes eyeballing we
can line up the edge of our measuring tape with that brick and then kind of go
okay we need to go across about oh I
don't know
20 8 in so there you have it 19 1/2 down from
the window 28 in over from the edge of the wall and we should pretty much hit
that spot okay so now that we're out here we can see about 18 1/2 in down is
right on this mortar line which is really handy cuz it means that as long
as you've got brick or wood siding or something along those lines you can
actually follow it along assuming that it is probably pretty
level and then take your second
measurement 28 in which and this is more
good luck lands us right on this point right here so that means we can drill
through mortar rather than the brick which is going to do less damage to the
look of the wall and also has less of a chance of cracking something as you go
through we can put our cable through and then run it right down here under this
metal flashing and cable management along the concrete here at the
bottom so then without further Ado we've
got our drill set to the hammer drill setting bear in mind you don't
necessarily have to have a big old rugged one like this a lot of just
normal hand drills will have a hammer setting you can just check yours and
it's Off to the
Races actually our masonry bit didn't end up being long enough to punch
through the plywood so we've got a spade bit here and while I could you know try
to use my landm marking to make a hole on the other side exactly where this one
is and if I measured perfectly that would work it's a little bit easier
since I'm in here anyway to just punch through the drywall
now and they'll know exactly where I made my hole from the outside so for the
next step because we want a socket in there we're going to to expand the hole
we made with a drywall saw to just the
size of the perimeter of the inside of this wall plate then what we're going to
do is screw the wall plate in which will make these little flanges here grip onto
the drywall holding it into place this gives us somewhere to mount that plate
that we're going to add later so with our hole complete we take one end of our
Ethernet cable and run it through the hole pretty
self-explanatory now you're going to want to leave yourself a little bit of
extra cable in the wall because the next step crimping the end onto the cable is
the most likely reason that your cable
run might not end up working so you want to have enough extra that you can cut
off what you did and redo it so here we
are with the cable on the other side and this won't be by any means the world's
most comprehensive how to terminate your own Ethernet cables guide but basically
you strip the outer sheathing then because this is an outdoor cable there's
going to be some goop in there don't worry about that you still as normal
separate all your Twisted pairs align them in the correct order according to
your diagram place them into the cutting tool on the crimper with the length such
that you'll will have the outer sheathing sticking into the connector
about this far then feed all the ends
without any need to strip them insert the whole thing into the slotted part of
the crimping tool crimp and remove it
actually shouldn't take longer than a minute or so per end once you get the
hang of it so the next step here is to break out that smaller masonry bit
remember you won't need that if you're running along wood you can just use your
screws and put them right into the siding for the cable straps but we're
going to be using the masonry bit as well as our little plastic inserts to
every 12 to 16 in or so Place one of our
cable straps for a nice tight cable management line under the metal flashing
so that it's not visible from a person's eye level then we're going to remove the
down spout and run the cable up the corner where the down spout is making it
other than the entry hole and a small
hole up in the top of the sofit basically invisible someone up there oh
hi ha well that worked out so now that
we've got our wire in the wall we need to put some cocking in there to keep
moisture from seeping in along the wire this will dry clear once we're done now
if you were doing a project with a longer run it's possible that you would
be stuck with more cable visible from the outside of the house but the limit
is pretty much your own creativity here and the best practice is to generally
speaking follow the lines of the house whether it's siding or whether it's a
vertical you know end piece or finishing piece and keep it in Corners as much as
possible okay oh
so this is it home stretch we've got the
wire out of the crawl space and all that's left to do is cut it to the
appropriate length
here there we go we're not going to
bother with the you know nice wall mounted Jack or anything like that so I
just got to crawl over here put it through that same hole that everything
else is using you get this nice shot of my butt in the meantime I got it
brunning so I got to pull this baby out here
terminate it and that's it that's the
Run that's running an Ethernet cable on
the outside of the house for a not only tier
but crazy shorter run it turns out
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