[kwlug-disc] Best place to purchase Cat6 in K/W

[Raymond Chen]

At first I thought Joe was talking about power line ethernet. After some
study it turned out to be another thing. I guess Power over Ethernet is
cool, if we are planning the wiring from scratch. BTW, the 'power line
ethernet' is not very reliable. I have two adapters which work poorly, with
a lot of packet loss, if I plug any of them in a power strip. If both of
them are on wall outlet, they work well.

On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 7:04 PM, Joe Wennechuk <youcanreachmehere at hotmail.com
> wrote:

> IMHO.....  Being that you're at the planning phase I would suggest the
> extra money on Power over Ethernet gear. It works very well, and provides
> much more flexibility of usage. It will save many headaches in the future
> and will allow you to position the wireless equipment it the optimum
> position.
> I have found Mikrotik gear to be extremely well made, reliable, and mostly
> for me cheap! And just using an rj-45 with out a power brick, module, and
> outlet necessity very nice indeed.
>
> http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:PoE-Out
>
> I LOVE of the mikrotik monitoring and discovery tools, especially the
> "Dude"
>
> > From: aklists at mixdown.ca
> > Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 18:31:39 -0400
> > To: kwlug-disc at kwlug.org
> > Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Best place to purchase Cat6 in K/W
> >
> > > On Jun 10, 2015, at 5:59 PM, B. S. <bs27975 at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> > > And ... just in case ... don't forget, you'll want plenum rated cable,
> regardless of what you go with. (Heat/fire resistance.)
> > > (Dig into the kwlug archives within the last year or two, search cat6,
> there will be a group of messages from Cedric within that thread. It was
> good reading.
> > > http://kwlug.org/pipermail/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org/ )
> >
> > It was actually a kwartzlab post. I dug through and found it:
> http://kwartzlab.ca/pipermail/discuss_kwartzlab.ca/2012-September/001193.html
> >
> > I’m looking at building a house and to be honest, I’m far more inclined
> to put cat5e throughout. Any truly long runs (say over 50m) would be cat6,
> but my intention would be to install a 3” metal conduit going from the
> basement electrical room to the attic (and another from the basement to
> some central location on the main floor), and then requiring ANY non-power
> cabling to be run through them. I am not sure if I’d buy some 1/2” plastic
> conduit to run inside the walls of a given level or not (i.e. from the
> central conduit to a specific outlet) but I would ask that all non-power
> wires be left loose in the walls so I could more easily pull new cabling if
> the need arose.
> >
> > Using a metal conduit between floors might even alleviate the need for
> plenum-rated cable, although to be honest most solid core cable is
> plenum-rated anyway. You can find 1000 foot boxes of plenum rated, solid
> core cat5e for about $45 on amazon, and I’d also check with local
> contractor outlets like Graybar to see what they can do (since you wouldn’t
> have to pay for shipping).
> >
> > -A.
> >
> >
> >
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