I can’t seem to utter the right incantation into Google or Amazon to find the right term for a plate/box that allows multiple cables to inside the house to outside - just Ethernet and possibly fiber. Can anyone tell me what it’s called, please?

Basically I want to pass multiple external Ethernet cables from an inside wall plate to outside cameras and a shed - up to 6 cables potentially. My present “drill a big hole and pack with wall filler” isn’t viable beyond a cable or two.

Thanks.

  • Natoochtoniket@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The hard part is outside. Needs to be weather tight. Use a conduit through the wall, into a weather tight junction box on the outside. For each cable, open a hole in the junction box and install a “cable gland”. A cable gland is a device that seals around a cable, fits through a drilled hole with a rubber washer, and is weather tight. They sell lots of them on amazon.

    Inside, you just have to make it pretty.

  • LimeyRat@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Junction box.

    Plus conduit, probably, but depends on exactly what you’re going to do with it.

    Could be a hole through the wall, with a stub (short piece) of conduit out into the junction box. From the junction box you’d have more conduit or conduits, or glands to weather seal single cables.