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January 19, 2021 at 01:20 PM
lanzafame

Pre installed coax cable… but I need cat5!

by lanzafame . Updated 5 years, 4 months ago

Hi there,
Please could someone help me? I’m still learning about this stuff, but being broke am trying to avoid calling someone out.

I have a 30m coax cable running from a garden out-house to the front of the main property where its not currently connected to anything.

I want to get internet in the out-house so my plan was to pass the coax cable into the main property and connect the coax cable to the yellow LAN-out in back of (Vodafone) modem. This in theory will send internet to out-house. But its the wrong connection (BNC, not RJ45)

Confusingly, the outhouse has a cat6 wall box in which this coax cable is resting but obviously not attached as its the wrong box.

So – on either end I have cat5/6 connections (back of modem and garden outhouse) BUT i have a coax cable running between them.

I’ve seen simple, small adapters BNC -RJ45 but will these suffice? Any suggestions gratefully received!

Thanks

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