Ethernet Female to Female Box

[Eraserhead]

In my house we have an Ethernet cable coming through the wall into my bedroom upstairs. Now after rearranging the furnature the cable doesn't quite reach where I have my computer. Is it possible to buy a box that sits on the wall which you can plug the end of the cable into (basically being a female-to-female ethernet adapter)?

Thanks

 

[Blue Velvet]

I use little F to F adapters to string together cables at work... you can get them all over the place; Dabs, Maplins, PC World etc.

 

[bartelby]

You could make one.
Get a 2 keystone wall box and 2 ethernet sockets from B&Q then wire the sockets together.

 

[spork183]

I use little F to F adapters to string together cables at work... you can get them all over the place; Maplins, PC World etc.

Just buy a longer cable. by the time you buy the connector and another cable, it would be a wash. cables are cheap and you have one less connection to mess with.

edit: I didn't understand the question. You only have a cable coming out of the wall, not a jack? Yeah, the connectors are easy.

 

[Blue Velvet]

Just buy a longer cable. by the time you buy the connector and another cable, it would be a wash. cables are cheap and you have one less connection to mess with.

I already have a box full of various adapters and cables. Sometimes we shift Macs and printers about, one printer needed a 20 metre run. It's good to have the flexibility.

 

[spork183]

one printer needed a 20 metre run.

At what distance do you start to have signal problems with Cat5/6?

(I think I did a 60 metre run one time. wore me plumb out... )

 

[robbieduncan]

At what distance do you start to have signal problems with Cat5/6?

(I think I did a 60 metre run one time. wore me plumb out... )

I think the spec for Cat5 is 100m. Obviously in a single continuous cable: these connector boxes might well cut that down a bit.