Bill J said: Ethernet wiring inside a RV?

Maybe I'm just extremely lucky.  Maybe they WERE special ordered.  But the wires were run from the bedroom to the outside (water input) INSIDE the frame, and were neatly taped together at the end.

The Ethernet cover plates were wired with the same square screws covering the coax (tv/satellite) connections and all the other locations  in the RV requiring screws (Including the audio outputs in the basement, etc..)

It is next to my cable/satellite box, and also shares a outlet with 2 telephone (cat 3) connectors.

It runs from my 'water input box' to my bedroom closet where the stereo/satellite equipment is, terminating in a quad jack (on the wall.)

At that location there are 4 jacks, labeled  "outside, basement, liv room, bedroom).

I jumper-ed (1foot patch cable), from outside to living room to connect the WiFi Ranger Mobile Antenna to my router.

 (I still have about 20 1 foot cables left from when I was down-sizing-- They are useful for my work!)

I do think it was very neat not to have to run cable myself, and now that I am calmer, and a day past the incident, I can only say:

Need it repaired? Not sure that it works?  Call me!

Mitch B.

And my final complaint (as a low voltage professional with over 20 years experience was:)

If you are ALREADY wiring a (room/house/RV) with cat 5/cat 6 cable AND you are going to connect a voice  phone line:

You will NOT save ANY money in the long term by being cheap, and using phone cable (4 wire-Cat 3) instead of Ethernet cable (Cat5 8wire)

in your installation.

It will only exasperate and frustrate the rare person like me, who opened the cover plate, and was disgusted to find he could NOT install ANOTHER ethernet port to replace the phone wire he would never use, BECAUSE the company that installed it in the first place made the decision to save about 2cents per foot on wire instead of "future-proofing' for future customer satisfaction!

(in other words, if the company had run two ethernet wires instead of one ethernet wire and TWO phone wires, I would be happy, and they might have saved money by using two wires instead of THREE!)  (it's technical, and not worth explaining!)

Sigh... Another day, another Lesson learned.

...(and here's your payoff!)

...ESPECIALLY from the fact that over 10-15 years ago I coached people just starting with email to NEVER EVER EVER EVER hit send or save on a message that they wrote or responded to when they were angry or frustrated, because it would one day come back to BITE them, and make their life difficult.

... and what did I do last NIGHT????  same thing.

OK... Cheers to all