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

[CrankyOldBugger]

I can confirm that power line ethernet is still a long ways from reliable.
I had some d-link adapters a few years ago and couldn't even get them to
talk to each other.

PoE, on the other hand, is something else altogether.  The VoIP system we
use at work depends on PoE switches to light up the phones.  Every time we
install the VoIP in a remote office we need to replace the existing
switches with PoE equipment.


On Wed, 8 Jul 2015 at 09:25 Raymond Chen <raymondchen625 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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