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Home network wiring questions
ChadTower:
Hell, by that time, you'll be looking at cat16 or more.
GGKoul:
well.. by that time wireless will probably be 100m if not more. So there won't be a need for cables.
ChadTower:
There will ALWAYS be a need for cables. Wired is faster, will be faster, because you can't shoot electrons through the air. Wire is more secure because you can't sit outside the building and snoop on it. If they were the same speed I'd still want wired over wireless.
saint:
I would recommend always following the color scheme. The 4 pairs of wires are twisted at a different rate, and the 568a or 568b schemes were designed for maximum reliability based on the properties of the 4 pairs at their different twist rates. It's why the schemes exist...
--- saint
--- Quote from: ChadTower on March 04, 2005, 09:31:54 am ---I'm probably a little late, but shouldn't someone have told him not to use Cat5, as it's outdated and will be a limiting factor? He should at the very least be doing permanent wiring with Cat5e, and I would always recommend Cat6 going forward.
Plus, if you're just doing straight through runs, such as router to jack, jack to jack, etc, the color scheme is irrelevant. It just has to be the same on both ends. They're just wires.
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lucindrea:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on March 04, 2005, 09:31:54 am ---
Plus, if you're just doing straight through runs, such as router to jack, jack to jack, etc, the color scheme is irrelevant. It just has to be the same on both ends. They're just wires.
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that statement gets sooo meny people into problems .. over 10 feet i have seen badly done wires ( not useing the colors ) get hickups in data transmission where properly done ones work fine ... the # of twists per inch is differnt for each color and you want the pairs to be color matched ...
the short of it is , use the colors that are in the standards!!!