Extending CAT5 Cable 2

[willzer]

I'm in the middle of a nasty project that involves moving our network rack into the room on the other side of a wall. The building was wired with CAT5 but there is no slack on the home runs (all 160 of them). The move is required to add physical security to the equipment but now I'm wondering if this is even possible without creating a larger problem.

I had a light bulb moment and I wanted to throw it out here to see if anyone had any input. I thought about installing a 110 punch down block with C4 connectors and using it to extend the cabling with CAT5e to the new patch panel on the other side of the wall. Aside from being an organizational hassle, would this have a dramatic negative impact on the transmission performance?

If this is a bad idea are there any other options that do not[/color red] involve rewiring the entire building?

Thanks!

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[kwing112000]

There are a lot of ways to do this and yes you can do it the way you described. I would just keep in mind how much you are adding to the length of all the cables. then when you run anything new you can run to the new room. we just did this same thing on a site and are running VOIP over it and works well. there are 110 blocks that are cat5e rated

 

[willzer]

awesome. i've installed cat5e rated 110 blocks for NEW cabling but never used it to extend it. i guess my real concern is performance loss. did you test your cable after extending it? if so, what were the results?

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[kwing112000]

I dont do much cabling my self anymore but we had our contractor test it and it passed the cat5e tests. I think as long as it is clean and neat with the jacket up close to the termination point you should be ok.

 

[willzer]

sounds good. many many thanks!

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[aarenot]

The jacket does nothing, it is all in the twist.

 

[CTCINY]

The 110 will defintely work, but I just finisnhed a project similar to what you described and we ran short cables to the other side of the wall and put them on patch panels then patched them over. It was a little bit more costly but it also gave us a point of failure to test from in case of any issues with the cabling

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