I set up my home office a couple of months ago with in-wall ethernet cabling to suit. Of course, I've now shifted my office around and the ethernet jackpoints are about 2m away from where they need to be with the new configuration.

 

 

I know the right answer is to run new cables all the way from the network cupboard to the new location, but that is going to be a huge PITA. The office is also likely to be reconfigured again in a year or two (this time with walls shifting), so everything I do now is only temporary anyway.

 

 

I was hoping for some kind of two sided punch-down style connector I could use to join the existing run with the new extension, however all I can find are female-female jacks to join patch cables.

 

 

My current thinking is to leave the existing keystone ethernet jacks where they are (albeit shifting them inside the wall) and crimping a male ethernet plug on to the additional run of cable to extend it to where it needs to be.

 

 

I could just get longer patch cables, but they'd need to run around a big loop to be out of the path of foot traffic. It is easy enough to hide the additional runs in-wall so I'm looking at that solution first.

 

 

Just checking to see whether there are better solutions?