On Jan 27, 9:08 pm, "Mathew Newton" wrote:
I wish to move my home (personal) server into another room however
whilst I took advantage of a complete house restoration to install
Cat5e cabling I now find that the socket in the new room is not in the
best position for the intended layout. I don't really want to run a
long patch cable across/around the room to this socket, purely for
aesthetic reasons.

Thanks everyone for the ideas - all much appreciated.

Andrew's idea of a dual-faceplate and stubby patch cable could've been
good but the outlets will be quite visible being on an 'uncovered'
wall and hence the protusion might be unacceptable - shame there's no
such thing as an right-angled RJ45 plug (or at least that I've seen).

I think I'll go the for the pushdown coupler Bob pointed to at CPC -
whilst I thought soldering would have been the best way to go (I'm
amazed the pushdown connections are acceptable in this environment) by
all accounts it is somewhat difficult to get a decent result without
plenty of melted insulation. Depending on the size of these couplers
perhaps I could make the connection inside the current RJ45 outlet -
blanking it off with a faceplate - thus allowing the socket to be
reinstated if required at a later date?

Telephone I'll just daisy chain as suggested - it only needs to
support voice.

For the TV aerial I might go down the F-plug and coupler route - again
perhaps inside the current outlet if there's room.

Thanks again for the ideas, I just hope I don't get sleepless nights
wondering how many IP packets are being dropped... (sadly I'm that
type of person...)

Mathew