Joining Cat5 Cable

[ALundrigan]

This weekend at auction I picked up nearly 400 feet of Cat5 cable. It unfortunately came in pieces of between 20' and 50' in length. The latested addition to my home network requres roughly 60' of cable to connect the remote terminal to my hub.
Is it possible to join two or more unterminated (i.e: no plugs) cables together to form a single cable?

[MasterBlaster]

I'd put connectors at each end of both cables and use a couplar to connect them instead of trying to splice them. then if you ever need two short cables you dont have to cut it apart again. you can pick up cat5 couplers for a few bucks at most computer stores

[ALundrigan]

Thanks. I'll drop by the comptuer store tomorrow.

BTW... if I had to splice them, can I do it like I would a normal wire. Say, just skin out each strand of wire and twist them together? or is there some special procedure for Cat5?

[Sastraxi]

I'd say so; but use shrinkwrap if you want the best protection (you don't want data loss on a 100mbps connection )