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Re: Networking Cable [message #354053 is a reply to message #353936]

Sat, 11 October 2008 11:21

genetix
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Registered: July 2003
Location: Saskatchewan Canada

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Be careful. Networking your house is addicting!

During summer break a year ago I got laid off early so my parents bought the wiring so I could network our house(home office).

I ended up running over 600 feet of Cat6e cabling in the house. We've got almost 30 different extreme rated connections through out the house. Less then a month ago now I ran a cable from the basement(full patch panel for all connections) accross to the other end of the basement, outside to the garage, up the garage wall, into the garage attick, through that to the house attick, then through the side of the house into my second floor bedroom.

For Reference:
Cat5 - old standard networking cable.
Cat5e - new standard, slightly faster.
Cat6(e) - Top of the line home networking cable.
Cat7 - Data Center / Industry only. I uses a different connection end. Cat5, 5e and 6 all use RJ45 I believe is the code for the ends.
FiberOptics - Only show great improvements over long distances.

Most datacenters use fiber optics unless the path distance is under 300 feet. When a patch distance is under 300 feet fiber optics is considered to be equal with cat6e.

Now that the dust has settled I have close to $800 in networking cable in my house. Wall plates all over the house and a locked down wireless connection. We have 2 home servers/media centers one in my room and one in the living room. 2 IP addresses a public and a private. Public's for my development server.

I ended up buying everything through a electrician's wholesaler place. 1000 Feet of Cat6e cabling was $200. Crimping tool was $20, Line Test(you have to test ALL custom made lines) $60, Patch cable ends 25 was like $10. The expensive part is the connection ends that plug into the wall plates. Wholesale rate was $8 PER END when I installed everything!

There's a big enough speal for anyone thinking about going this route.

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		Networking Cable By: _SSnipe_ on Thu, 09 October 2008 23:26
		Re: Networking Cable By: Goztow on Thu, 09 October 2008 23:28
		Re: Networking Cable By: Xylaquin on Fri, 10 October 2008 00:54
		Re: Networking Cable By: Mauler on Fri, 10 October 2008 01:30
		Re: Networking Cable By: JPNOD on Fri, 10 October 2008 04:41
		Re: Networking Cable By: _SSnipe_ on Fri, 10 October 2008 08:59
		Re: Networking Cable By: genetix on Sat, 11 October 2008 11:21
		Re: Networking Cable By: _SSnipe_ on Sat, 11 October 2008 15:42
		Re: Networking Cable By: genetix on Sat, 11 October 2008 16:11
		Re: Networking Cable By: _SSnipe_ on Sat, 11 October 2008 16:15
		Re: Networking Cable By: Caveman on Sat, 11 October 2008 19:31
		Re: Networking Cable By: _SSnipe_ on Sat, 11 October 2008 20:57
		Re: Networking Cable By: Caveman on Sun, 12 October 2008 01:36
		Re: Networking Cable By: EvilWhiteDragon on Sun, 12 October 2008 03:40
		Re: Networking Cable By: _SSnipe_ on Sun, 12 October 2008 09:13
		Re: Networking Cable By: Goztow on Sun, 12 October 2008 09:40
		Re: Networking Cable By: _SSnipe_ on Sun, 12 October 2008 09:43
		Re: Networking Cable By: Caveman on Sun, 12 October 2008 11:32
		Re: Networking Cable By: _SSnipe_ on Sun, 12 October 2008 12:50
		Re: Networking Cable By: _SSnipe_ on Wed, 15 October 2008 13:14
		Re: Networking Cable By: Starbuzzz on Wed, 15 October 2008 13:16
		Re: Networking Cable By: Caveman on Wed, 15 October 2008 16:00
		Re: Networking Cable By: _SSnipe_ on Wed, 15 October 2008 18:33
		Re: Networking Cable By: Starbuzzz on Wed, 15 October 2008 18:38
		Re: Networking Cable By: _SSnipe_ on Wed, 15 October 2008 18:43
		Re: Networking Cable By: genetix on Wed, 15 October 2008 16:01
		Re: Networking Cable By: genetix on Wed, 15 October 2008 19:15
		Re: Networking Cable By: _SSnipe_ on Wed, 15 October 2008 20:09

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