RE: [KAT5] Newbie overload!

["Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike,

I never have enough Cat5! I took all the advice when I re-wired my house
several years ago and put in approx 200 runs of Cat5 around the house. I
ended up moving a lot of my AV kit to a new room and the 6 cat5 runs to
that point quickly got swallowed up (Ethernet, Kat5 RGB, Kat5 S-video,
Serial x 3 for plasma, DVD and Amp control etc).

If you've got the chance, always put significantly more in than you need - 
it doesn't need to be terminated at a face plate, just available in the
future. The extra effort and cost of the cable is miniscule anyway :)

Paul.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Mc Alinden [mailto:fmcalind@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 01 January 2005 20:12
> To: kat5-users@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [KAT5] Newbie overload!
>
>
> Hi Mike
>
> > Do most Kat5 users get away with having just one cat 5 cable? 
How
> > many of you wish you had an "extra" cat 5 cable and
why?
>
> Install as much of cat5 cable as you can..... As well as using cat5
for
> KAT5
> i use  the structured cat5 wiring system for my infrared system ,
Probe
> Status system and other ha stuff .....
>
> Frank
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "dcmichael" <dcmichael@xxxxxxx>
> To: <kat5-users@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 5:12 AM
> Subject: [KAT5] Newbie overload!
>
>
> >
> >
> > Greetings from Arlington, VA USA
> >
> > I'm having a new townhouse built, and for the longest time I have
> > been trying to figure out what to do about wiring the place.
> >
> > Before I found this group and "discovered" that you can
send lots of
> > other stuff over Cat5, I ordered a bunch of "2x2"
wiring from every
> > room in the house, leading to a central location (my garage).
> >
> > The 2x2 bundle consists of 2 coax cables, and 2 cat 5 cables.
> >
> > I've been trying to read up and figure out the "best"
setup for my
> > place, but I'm drowning in too much information.
> >
> > Do most Kat5 users get away with having just one cat 5 cable? 
How
> > many of you wish you had an "extra" cat 5 cable and
why?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > -Mike
> >
> > P.S.  Any US kat5 users in here?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Searchable KAT5 archive can be found at
> > http://www.ukha-archive.com/
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
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> >
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> Searchable KAT5 archive can be found at
> http://www.ukha-archive.com/
> Yahoo! Groups Links
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