How to Cut Ethernet Cable? (Legal)

[Patrick Bateman]

okay so hear me out, nothing illegal, I paid for Internet, i am shifting house, I paid for ethernet cable at 30 per meter or so (80 meters running from roof to our apartment), the cable is mine, i Cut service With isp

1) how do I cut this cable into small parts and add Those Ethernet connectors ? any risk with using standard scissors?

2) its a power over Ethernet cable, can it be used like a standard cable ?

I plan to wire my next apartment with this, I Will evolve into a cool rich Murcian kid with Cat5e laying across his house.


P:S for those wondering, ISP is Mukand Infotel Guwahati or MNET, 1.8 Stars on google, Ping and Speeds are good, but they lied to me and I had to pay 7K extra And since everyone is giving them one star I will too.

 

[Patrick Bateman]

anyone?

 

[Party Monger]

okay so hear me out, nothing illegal, I paid for Internet, i am shifting house, I paid for ethernet cable at 30 per meter or so (80 meters running from roof to our apartment), the cable is mine, i Cut service With isp

1) how do I cut this cable into small parts and add Those Ethernet connectors ? any risk with using standard scissors?

2) its a power over Ethernet cable, can it be used like a standard cable ?

I plan to wire my next apartment with this, I Will evolve into a cool rich Murcian kid with Cat5e laying across his house.


P:S for those wondering, ISP is Mukand Infotel Guwahati or MNET, 1.8 Stars on google, Ping and Speeds are good, but they lied twice to me, And since everyone is giving them one star I will too.

Not an expert, but have researched similar stuff. You will need to take the cable out and figure out which are power cables and which are data ones. You can use scissors to cut. When you take it to your new place and cut, you will need to crimp the cable (google crimp with type of wire) with the connector for the cable (lan). If you are not using Poe then you will need to leave out the power wires (cover ends with electric tape properly). That should be it. There are plenty of videos for each part of it.

Also wire cutters are cheap and more convenient. Head to an electronics shop. You will get the connectors online or a cable shop, you will also need a crimp too. I got one (for adsl cable for 250 bucks). Check online whole thing shouldn't cost you more than 400.

 

[booo]

Ethernet cables (cat5 and cat6) have 4 pairs of wires. i.e., .... **** it... watch this

 

[6pack]

I believe that power is sent on one twisted pair on regular ethernet cat 5e cables.
I saw the tikona guy use normal ethernet cable with normal end connectors.

Instead of cutting you could use it to cable one end of house to another.

 

[nRiTeCh]

First verify if its a normal cat5/cat7 cable or coaxial cable cable type.
For cat5/7 cable you can cut it easily, mold and bend or do whatever you can with it. But with coaxial cable it needs a bit expertise.

For those who are talking about power cable, isps dont provide dedicated power cable unless they are installing dedicated router/modem/switch for your own house rather than a building. In which the power is drawn from the building source rather than individual house. Simply, the power is for the device install which is a DC adaptor.

For taking ownership about the switch/router/modem, its better to have a word with the isp if you paid full amount for that particular modem/router/switch etc. Only then you can claim its ownership and take it in your custody else action will be taken against you.

 

[Patrick Bateman]

@nRiTeCh, its a Cet5e cable, A little bit of context about the setup, there is a Modem/router on the roof. The cable is power over Ethernet type, gets power after coming to our flat from the wall socket though a adapter then goes to a Ethernet switch from where it's connected to two pcs and a wifi router,

I paid 9k in total and aside from the modem on roof, the rest of stuff is confirmed mine and was paid for at Mrp,

The Cat5e cable from roof to our flat runs 80 meters throughout a duct. ( it's a 10+ story building) I wanna cut this into parts and reuse in the future.

 

[vivek.krishnan]

Just cut the wire into lengths of your choice and crimp them - any tutorial will help.

Secondly, I would advice against using this without ensuring the entire wire is not having any scuffs/cuts anywhere.

power over ethernet uses standard ethernet cable, 2 pairs are used for power, 2 for data - this is legacy. The gigabit standard uses phantom power where it supplies power over all 4 pairs. You dont need to worry, if you have cut from both ends.