throbscottle
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I have some cat5 bulk cable sitting around which has had lengths cut off it over the years, but now I would like to run some between rooms in my house, and may need to connect pieces together. Ok I know it's cheap enough, but I already have the cable and the budget is tight.
Is it ok to just solder the wires together, if I stagger the joins over a couple of inches? Or do I need to get one of those fancy coupler jobbies? Or would it be better to make a little straight-through pcb for this?
This is for home use only so it doesn't have to be standards compliant, just retain most of the bandwidth.
TIA![Smile :) :)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
Is it ok to just solder the wires together, if I stagger the joins over a couple of inches? Or do I need to get one of those fancy coupler jobbies? Or would it be better to make a little straight-through pcb for this?
This is for home use only so it doesn't have to be standards compliant, just retain most of the bandwidth.
TIA