Re: [SLUG] Using old ethernet wiring?

From: craig@ctrust.com
Date: Thu Jul 15 2004 - 11:27:01 EDT


On 15 Jul 2004 at 10:56, SOTL wrote:

> On Thursday 15 July 2004 10:01, Kwan Lowe wrote:
> > >> Unless it is secured to the walls somehow, I would
> > >> suggest you just tie the Cat5 to it and use the
> > >> coax to pull the cat5 into place. You'll be saving
> > >> yourself a number of headaches in the future.
> >
> > If you do decide to do this, I always pull a few spares through at the same
> > time then just hide them behind the plate.
>
> That cost to much.
>
> Better is also pull in a new pull cord when you pull in the cat 5 cable.
>
> Pull cord is much cheaper than cat 5 cable unless of course some company is
> buying it and you expect an increase id desktops.
>
> Frank
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a 1000 foot spool of Cat5e is less than $100. You
want to make sure you are using solid core wire in
the walls. Stranded will work, but its ment for
patch cables, not to be stuck in the walls.
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