[nycbug-talk] installing cat5 cabling

[jonathan vanasco]

I always use pricewatch.com to find that sort of stuff

i wired my office mostly with stuff from http://surpluscomputers.com/
i think they mostly have stuff from silicon valley overstocks ,  
deadstocks and failures

i used cat5e, as cat6 is make believe, and cat5e runs gigabit well

i used solid, not  braided, as i heard thats a better connection, and  
spidered out  drop points to hubs throughout the office

at the hubs I used braided to connect to different machines

it works well, but its a pain in the ass to lay cable.  i had to run  
it on ceiling trays.
its easy work, but its time consuming.



On Jul 22, 2005, at 7:04 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote:

> I'll just answer everyone at once rather than cluttering the list  
> with a bunch of replies...
>
> On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 alex at pilosoft.com wrote:
>
>
>> On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Charles Sprickman wrote:
>>
>> Check whether the building will *allow* you do to that.
>>
>
> Yes, we're very lucky, this building is a free-for-all as far as  
> labor (and more importantly, letting us sell access to other  
> tenants).  Very happy with our choice so far.  Have an FOC of 7/27  
> for an ethernet drop from ConEd to connect back to our PoP at 111  
> 8th Avenue.
>