extend a console cable

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I have a router that is in the other side of the room and want to use my console cable (rj45-> com) to connect to it, but it is too short.

I was thinking of using a network socket to do it... any experience with that?

 

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not sure what you mean by network socket but using a home plug will get around the issue. I use them and they are fantastic. A pair can be picked up for around £50.

 

What I mean is:

I have a cisco console cable, like this:


I connect it to my COM port in my laptop. On the wall I want to put a network socket with two modules:



And wire these modules with cat5e cable and on the other end put rj45 head with the same order of the wires


My questions is: how should I wire these modules? In this cisco console cable when I look at rj45 they use different colours than are in cat5e, but rollover means it must go like this 1,2,3....8 or 8,7,6....1

 

The colours are irrelevant really, electricity is colour blind

all you want to do is extent the cable, so therefore, pin 1 goes to pin 1 and pin 2 to pin 2 etc.

this is not a situation where any cross over is needed.

 

should of kept off the wine last night. Just read your post again when my brain is working. Sorry mate thought you were talking about wiring a games console up to a router (Why I thought that I don't know since you posted it in the Cisco section???). Should work fine mate. My suggestion should also work.