The only experience I had running cables was taking a shop class in
electrical wiring in high school. That and helping my father rmake
electrical repairs our house when I was a kid. But I figured it couldn't be
too hard.
I mostly used an unbent wire coat hanger as a fish tool. You can unbend a
wire coat hanger and then make a short j at one end. Attach the network
cable to the fish tool by stripping off some of the coating and sticking it
through the j kind of like threading a needle. Then bend over the wires of
the network cable and put tape over the connection. So you've made two
interlocking hooks that are reinforced with tape. That should allow you to
pull the cable through a pretty small hole without it coming off. Then you
just drill a hole in the ceiling or wall you want to go through and stick
the straight end of the fish tool through. Its best to have somebody on the
other side to pull on it as it comes through but it isn't a necessity.
If you're going up through the ceiling of the basement, measure carefully
from some landmark so that you can come up between the walls and between the
studs. I found a braille tape measure a necessity for this. Then you can
drill a small hole in the wall that should allow you to grab the fish tool
ccoming up through the basement. I found it much easier to push the fish
tool up through the ceiling of the basement rather than trying to stick the
fish ool into the hole in the floor between the walls.
The most valuable tool of all is patience. It can be difficult to find the
fish tool after you've stuck it through some hole especially if its inside
the wall and you have only a small hole in the wall to work through. There
were times when I spent hours doing a single connection like that. If I got
tired, I'd give up and try again the next day.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Mustill-Rose"
How easy did you find that John? Did you have any diy type experience before that? I assume that you just drop the cable down, but how do you know exactly where its going to drop to?
Cheers, Ben.
On 13/07/2011, John G. Heim
wrote: Yeah, I don't know how a blind person could put the ends on network cables. Maybe somebody has figured out a way but I would think that would require sighted assistance. But you can't always buy cables. I ran my own network cables in my house, fished them up through the walls and all that. But when it came time to put the ends on, I had to hire someone to do it.
Except for putting the ends on the cables, I built a gigabit network in my house. I ran the cables myself. It was kind of funny actually. I was walking around with this giant drill with a drill bit about 2 feet long. That made my wife a little nervous. "What are you going to do with that?" she asked. I had to drill through the ceiling of the basement to get the cables into the first floor rooms. But I measured very carefully and never drilled a hole where it didn't belong. And now we have a gig network in our house.
----- Original Message ----- From: "White, Matt"
To: Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 10:53 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] network cables, do you make your own? Cutting and crimping, no problem. Getting colors lined up, forget it. Monoprice is my go-to source for decent, cheap, cables.
On Tue, July 12, 2011 18:25, Zameer Mahomed wrote:
Hi listers,
ok, if this is inappropriate, you have all the right to boot me off this list. But I write this because I'm just burning with curiosity, I have no other visually impaired person to ask, and wanted to know if any visually impaired people can do this in someway or another.
So, do you make your own ethernet cables?
I'm doing N+ and I know we'd have a problem when it comes to putting the colours in the right pairs but what about cutting, crimping etc?
Unfortunately I'm studying this thing by myself so no practical assistance here. Hence one of the many reasons for asking.
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