Hi
Having to move the router in my house. The exsiting location had wired connections to 3 other rooms that were installed years ago and are now surrounded by built in wardrobes etc. All works fine atm. When I move the router I can reroute all the cables so that i 'should' still have a wired connection to each room. One cable is going to be about a metre short (of course it is). Not a networking expert, but I've seen that you can buy male to female connectors as a way of extending the cable. Are they a way of getting around this? Running a new cable isn't really an option. The house has been extended a couple of times and the plugs aren't on the same circuits (or so I've been told), which makes the mains network adaptors ineffective. I could move the router to another location, but it would be a real ballache. Am I going to lose a lot of performance with this fix?
I suppose the moral is when you're installing cables think ahead to how much you might need in the future and then double it.
Having to move the router in my house. The exsiting location had wired connections to 3 other rooms that were installed years ago and are now surrounded by built in wardrobes etc. All works fine atm. When I move the router I can reroute all the cables so that i 'should' still have a wired connection to each room. One cable is going to be about a metre short (of course it is). Not a networking expert, but I've seen that you can buy male to female connectors as a way of extending the cable. Are they a way of getting around this? Running a new cable isn't really an option. The house has been extended a couple of times and the plugs aren't on the same circuits (or so I've been told), which makes the mains network adaptors ineffective. I could move the router to another location, but it would be a real ballache. Am I going to lose a lot of performance with this fix?
I suppose the moral is when you're installing cables think ahead to how much you might need in the future and then double it.
