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[Confusingboat]

You're gonna want Cat5e, not regular Cat5. Unless you're 100% sure you'll never upgrade to 1gbps, which I thought we never would, yet here I am with a gigabit LAN. Or if you really want to be future-proof wire in Cat6a.

[Vegas_Matt]

at work i've done entire patch panels in fiber. so depending on how future ready you want to be haha jk.

i wish i knew more about this stuff. i used to run it and hook it up for a living but that was all pretty simple

[Confusingboat]

I've dealt with fiber patch panels as well -- I for one think they're very irritating. Good thing fiber is only for backbone usage lol. But in all seriousness Cat5e is all you should ever need.

[Vegas_Matt]

i tell sidework customers that every day that want cat6 to their favorite computer desk

"you'd be waiting for something to come out to support the work i just did"

what do you do confusingboat?

[rynoman03]

Technically you can run gigabit on cat 5 it's just not rated for it.


HA I can buy 5 of these for a 10th of the price of a 500ft box.

http://www.amazon.com/100FT-PATCH-ET.../dp/B001AVZFDA

I might do that cause i'm sure i won't be running any longer than 100foot runs i could just cut the ends off.

[Confusingboat]

i tell sidework customers that every day that want cat6 to their favorite computer desk

"you'd be waiting for something to come out to support the work i just did"

what do you do confusingboat?

Well I work at a grocery store as a cashier...LOL. But I did some server work for a company called DSI over the summer. And by server work I mean I spent 17 hours on average per day (well, night), 4 days in a row for like 6 weeks straight, taking ALL the equipment out of 3 huge server racks, reinstalling them in a different arrangement, and wiring them to look super nice. We did this on 25 different Home Depots across the greater Kansas/Missouri area. It paid $200/day but I wouldn't do it again unless it was closer to home. Basically we turned this:



Into this:



Also, you can run gigabit on Cat5 as long as it's not longer than 10m. I'd still go with Cat5e though.

[matt5112]

always wondered why i'd get gigabit on cat5 cables lol

[rynoman03]

I've got 100 full on cat3 before. Down in New Mexico as a Dell Contractor.

[Vegas_Matt]

Well I work at a grocery store as a cashier...LOL. But I did some server work for a company called DSI over the summer. And by server work I mean I spent 17 hours on average per day (well, night), 4 days in a row for like 6 weeks straight, taking ALL the equipment out of 3 huge server racks, reinstalling them in a different arrangement, and wiring them to look super nice. We did this on 25 different Home Depots across the greater Kansas/Missouri area. It paid $200/day but I wouldn't do it again unless it was closer to home. Basically we turned this:



Into this:



Also, you can run gigabit on Cat5 as long as it's not longer than 10m. I'd still go with Cat5e though.

sounds like you took what us electricians did and made it look "purdy" haha

[Confusingboat]

We also installed the radio equipment and servers for the First Phones they got in the fall. We actually got to test them out before the employees did lol.

[Vegas_Matt]

update:

got my router runnin on DD-WRT as of last night, thanks to Rynoman03 for pointing me out the correct build.

[rynoman03]

YAY!