Connecting Cat5 Cable To Wall Plate

This is a nice wall plate for the modern wired home to carry both coax and cat5 6.

Connecting cat5 cable to wall plate.

Always use connectors wall plates and patch panels that are compatible same rating or higher with the grade of the cable used. You can use a standard wire stripper to strip the coaxial cable but a custom coax stripper will give you a perfect cut. After that it will just be a matter of running the ethernet cable between the outlet and your modem and wiring the cable to a special connector designed to fit inside the jack. It works great but the installation is a little annoying in that you can t simply plug in a cat5 6 cable to the jack like some other products.

Some parts of this animation visually enhance the wiring. Running a cable out of the wall to an rj45 connector may work but it will never be in spec in this case the spec expects you to use a patch cable and keystone. Fosmon 1 gang wall plate 5 pack brush style opening passthrough low voltage cable plate in wall installation for speaker wires coaxial cables hdmi cables or network phone cables by fosmon 14 99 14. Here s a step by step guide to wiring your home with cat5e or cat6 ethernet cable.

This post is republished from instructables. Then trace and cut out a hole for the wall plate that you ll use to mount the jack itself. Do not use the twist on connectors. Demonstration of how to connect a cat6 cable into an antsig wall plate.

Preserve the wire pair twists as close as possible to the point of termination. When connecting jacks and plugs do not untwist the cable more than 0 5 inches for category 5e 6 and 6a cable. For coaxial wires you must crimp on a coax connector before connecting the wire to the wall plate.