cut offs

The telecom engineer came to install the fibre. Unfortunately, he couldn't route the fibre to the boxroom where all the computer stuff is due to company Covid-19 policy which is fair enough. However, we now have the fibre end point in the bedroom and need to route a network cable from the bedrom across the flat to the boxroom. I borrowed a crimping tool and drill bit for the wall from a colleague who also had a drum of suitable cable. Drilling the hole though the wall was hard work, routing the cable was ok. I am really bad a crimping cables. It didn't help that we only had two connectors, so it had work first time. It didn't, i got one pair of cables the wrong way round and ended up with only 100MBit/sec transfer speeds instead of 1GBit/sec. Ah well, internet shopping to the rescue: I ordered some surface mount network sockets. Wiring up the female sockets with a punch-down tool is a lot easier that crimping the male ends to the cable. It does mean we have to wait for a day or so until the new bits arrive. I did try the new connection and I am very pleased we more or less get the advertised speed.