[clug-talk] who does cat5 wiring in town?

[Cody Swanson]

Woops, I meant regarding Chris's question. :-)

Cody Swanson wrote:
> Cat5e supports gigabit and it's significantly cheaper and easier to 
> terminate than cat6.
> 
> Regarding Dafydd's question,
> 
> Likely what the builder did is pull one cat5 cable per room and use half 
> the conductors for each RJ11 (phone) jack. It's a cheap thing to do but 
> quite common.
> 
> Remove the two screws holding the faceplate on and see for yourself. If 
> there's only one cable you will only be able to do one RJ45 connector 
> which means you'll have to choose between phone and network in each 
> room. Also, before you bother buying face plates etc, read the cable to 
> make sure it's at least category 5 UTP. If it's category 3 cable you 
> will only want to use that for phone.
> 
> If you're feeling adventurous, try to run some cable yourself. You can 
> buy a 300 meter box of decent cat5e for around $70. The face plates 
> usually come with a plastic punch down tool good enough to do a few with 
> so no special tools will be required.
> 
> Dafydd Crosby wrote:
>> If you can afford it, you may even want to look into Cat 6 cabling, 
>> since gigabit devices are starting to become standard...
>>
>> -Dafydd
>>
>> Chris q wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm looking for someone to wire my house with cat5. Theoretically, I 
>>> should have two cat 5 cables behind all my phone face plates, but the 
>>> builders only put on face plates with a phone connecter. I think all 
>>> I need done is a changing of the face plate to a dual phone jack cat 
>>> 5. There's probably 3 face plates in total.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Chris
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