Greg Clare
If it is a single story house and you can get under the house, then what I did was simply drill a small hole through the chipboard floor (just big enough for the Cat5 cable to get through), at the very edge of the carpet, right next to the skirting board. A small hole in the floor at the edge of the carpet line is invisible to anyone making a visual inspection (unless you get the carpet caught in the electric drill and rip a huge chunk of wool out... try to avoid this!).
Then, if you don't want to screw Cat-5 outlets to your skirting board, just crimp the RJ45 plugs directly onto the leads that come up from under the floor so you can plug the leads straight into your RJ45 device.
When you move, just cut the plug off one end of each lead and pull them back through, the little holes are left hidden by the carpet.
PS: Going under the house also saves getting your lungs full of glass fibre.
And if you're not an animal, putting RJ45 wall plates above the skirting board and running the cable underneath is not that difficult nor expensive, and a darned sight tidier than external wall blocks. You should also note that sockets are usually intended for solid core cables, and crimp plugs for stranded cables. Crimping plugs intended for stranded cable onto solid cores is not really a good idea (although you can usually get away with it, as long is it doesn't move around too much), and punching stranded cable into blocks intended for solid cores *will* give you bad connections. -- don --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog