Paul Boniol wrote: > All the wiring in the house is new wire. Before the fire, I had a > wired 100 Mb hub in the office, and used wireless everywhere else. > > Since the walls were open, I bought and ran cable in August. The > drywall is up now, so what's there is it. The wire was made by > Hitachi Cable Manchester, Cat6, riser, 1000 ft box. Cable is labled > "Category 6 Plus 4PR/23". I'm 99% sure this is it: > http://share.salesaspects.com/files/Hitachi%20Cat6%20Plus.pdf
Good show, Paul. You'll be glad you did. <snip> > The electricians wanted $100 per run and I'd have to buy the wire. So > I looked at how they ran electrical wire and decided I could easily > run it myself. I put in 13 ports, all converging in the cupboard > under the stairs. (I don't have anywhere near that number of devices, > but I had the wire and it's not as easy to run inconspicuously after > the walls are up.) The pantry would have been more central, but I was > afraid of the fluorescent lights the electricians were talking about > putting in there. (knock wood) I have not had major interference problems with fluorescent fixtures. Not to say that the next time... > > I had them put a phone line and power up on the wall in the cupboard. > I think I should be set for DSL hookup, mounting a router on the wall, > and plugging the lines into the router. So when we're under there > during a tornado warning we can plug in the laptop and see the > weather, as long as the power doesn't go out. > > It may be a little bit before I get a gigabit router, but we'll have > to see on that. I'm not planning on getting a 16 port switch any time > soon either, as I doubt we would use too many ports for a while. > (Better to have them run and go unused than need them and not have the > wire run.) 16 port switches are $75.00 and falling. I wouldn't be surprised that when you are ready for 16 ports, that you can get a gig switch for that. > > Jacks and plugs: I just hate buying things that would be replaced > soon when just a couple of extra dollars would have gotten me what I > end up with. But I also don't want to buy the super-deluxe- > funtabulous-whatcha-mahoosit for $7 when I won't get any benefit over > the $4 whatcha-mahoosit (times 13). Like David Wilson said, the viability of gig is more determined by how tightly you maintain the twist of the cable going into the jacks and plugs than it does by the jacks and plugs themselves. Howard White --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
