How to get a CAT5 cable from the outside of the 337RLS to the inside 'easily'

[Cowboychincs]

I want to install a Wi-Fi extender/booster antenna to the ladder and run the associated cable to the inside of the RV to the router. Anyone found an easy place to "stick" a cable through to the inside?
Ideally, it would be a temporary placement just to make it easy to set it up when necessary... mounting the antenna is a snap... some PVC and some tie-wraps... getting the cable to the inside is the issue

Thoughts/suggestions are very welcome!

[openrangeowners]

If you have a rear living room, you can easily bring cable up through the end table - hole already in the floor where wiring comes up. You just need to cut a small hole in the fabric where the outrigger part is.

[geotex1]

I think I would go at it from the underbelly and also install a weathertight cover and port. Then when hanging on the ladder, a patch cable between the two.

Otherwise, for temporary use, just put it out through a slideout seal.

[Cowboychincs]

I DO have a rear living area with the fold down sofa bed with two cabinets, one on each side. If I understand correctly, there are AC wires that come up to those end tables from below... but I am not sure what you mean by "outrigger"....

Thanks tons for the hint... that will be very helpful and a great place to setup and use the router inside...

[openrangeowners]

[AndyBaum]

This flat ethernet cable is well made, and hides easily (you can even paint it): https://www.amazon.com/Cat-Ethernet-...s%2C183&sr=8-3

[Cowboychincs]

I think I would go at it from the underbelly and also install a weathertight cover and port. Then when hanging on the ladder, a patch cable between the two.

Otherwise, for temporary use, just put it out through a slideout seal.

Appreciate the response... sounds like a plan!

[SmallBoxMaker]

I want to install a Wi-Fi extender/booster antenna to the ladder and run the associated cable to the inside of the RV to the router.

Is this a router that you are supplying? If so, what we did might be useful. I had the Wi-Fi antenna on a painters pole which was held in a flag pole mount on the ladder. I then ran the cable from the antenna into the pass-thru where I had the router sitting next to the AC socket there. The cable simply went down the flag pole, over the ground, and up through one of the ports in the pass-thru.

Since this was a temporary installation (had to take it down when we traveled) this worked well for us. And having the router in the pass-thru avoided taking up any interior space.

[Cowboychincs]

This flat ethernet cable is well made, and hides easily (you can even paint it): https://www.amazon.com/Cat-Ethernet-...s%2C183&sr=8-3

I like that idea... possibly making it less visible! Appreciate the response

[traveldawg]

I need to take some photos and post my mod(s) for bringing in ethernet from the outside.... One could do the same with coax.

I had already modified the end tables on both side of our rear sofa so the tops hinge up (like a lot of the dresser tops in the bedroom) and installed a shelf so I could store things in there. I also installed an electric outlet inside each "table". So I just figured out where to drill through the back of the RV (just above the taillights in my case) and into the inside of one of the end tables. Then I modified a Fusion solar plug port to accept an ethernet plug and wha-laa - quick way to connect my WiFi Ubiquiti antenna to my Ubiquiti router which I keep inside the end table.

I got the idea about modifying the Fusion solar port from RVProject on YouTube.