Dull Men's Club
An unofficial chapter of the popular Dull Men's Club.
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I can give you a couple tips!
· Get some fish sticks if you don't have some. The stiff, fiberglass rods, not the processed seafood. You can get singles, or multiples that screw together. You use them by taping the cable to the end, and then pushing the fish stick from the back, to run cable through small spaces.
· Run a pullstring with your cables! Taped alongside your Ethernet cable you should also always include a pullstring, so that if you ever need to pull another cable that same way, you can just tape it on and pull. This can be actual pullstring, which is usually just a thin nylon cord, or another length of Ethernet cable.
· You can pull on it harder than you think, but not as hard as you hope. This is something that really you have to learn over time, but it helps to know beforehand. Ethernet cable is pretty strong. It's coiled in boxes because you're expected to pull it long distances, and sometimes it snags. When this happens, you don't immediately have to run and fix the snag. You can add some force, and give it a yank. But if it feels like it's really stuck, always make the walk. There's nothing worse than running an entire length of cable, only to find out it broke somewhere in the middle. On the upside though, it does become a free pullstring
That pullstring tip is so huge.
Even if your run doesn't end there, just having that much done and ready is a lifesaver