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If you can handle slightly 'undecorating' you can probably get the cable behind your skirting board (or get skirting board with a cable channel/chase cut into it).
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Carpet or wood floors? It might not be very tricky to lift the carpet (if you have it) and run a flat cable under that.
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- Should be fine.
- Cat6 uses the same pinout as cat5e but different design plugs (internally) with much tighter tolerances to try and keep the twist right up to pins. Flat cable might be less fiddly if the pairs are arranged roughly in order.
- Technically you should use a socket at each end with short patch cables completing the link but if you're running the cable externally I'm not sure you have much option other than just not curving it sharper than the max bend radius (which won't be neat).
- Should be fine.
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I want to run an ethernet cable from the router on one side of the room, to the TV on the other. Stupidly, I didn't think about this before redecorating.
We have white skirting boards so I was thinking about getting some flat cable and then very neatly gluing it to the skirting board with some of that super strong glu anything No Mor Nails.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/hvm/10m-FLAT-Cat5e-Ethernet-Patch-Cable-Halogen/B0017YXFHI#customerReviews
2 questions,
(I'm sure not that long ago all cables/phonelines/etc were nailed above skirting boards with those cable hoop-things.
Cheers.