I have recently bought a renovated house and the builder had CAT5 wiring installed to most rooms on the advice of the electrician. The builder doesn't understand CAT5 and the electrician has gone to ground.
CAT5 wires terminate in 6 rooms but there are only three cables terminating in the garage, where presumably some sort of distribution box would be positioned, so I assume the cables have been split at some point. It's not possible to see where.
Can anyone confirm whether a distribution system is likely to work if the cables have, in fact been split? Also there is no CAT5 wire present in the kitchen so could I run an additional cable from the garage, externally, to the kitchen i.e. is the CAT5 cable weather resistant?
If the answers to the above are postive how do I use the wiring to distribute an HDTV signal around the house? I assume there is an outlet from the Sky box that could be connected to some sort of distribution box to be located in the garage or is it possible to just join all the ends of the 3 CAT5 cables and plug them direct into the Sky box?
Thanks for any help.
CAT5 wires terminate in 6 rooms but there are only three cables terminating in the garage, where presumably some sort of distribution box would be positioned, so I assume the cables have been split at some point. It's not possible to see where.
Can anyone confirm whether a distribution system is likely to work if the cables have, in fact been split? Also there is no CAT5 wire present in the kitchen so could I run an additional cable from the garage, externally, to the kitchen i.e. is the CAT5 cable weather resistant?
If the answers to the above are postive how do I use the wiring to distribute an HDTV signal around the house? I assume there is an outlet from the Sky box that could be connected to some sort of distribution box to be located in the garage or is it possible to just join all the ends of the 3 CAT5 cables and plug them direct into the Sky box?
Thanks for any help.




