Re: Cat 5 cable

["Harrison, Mark (Alliance)" <Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx>]

>>>   ?Now, what about a good cheap supplier?

The problem with many so-called "CAT5 installers" is that there
are a lot of
cheap ones out there who will not fully obey the specifications (which
include things like minumum bend radius on "behind the wall"
wiring.) As
such, a lot of "so-called" CAT5 installations will work fine for
things like
10Mb/sec data, but fall over a year down the line when you try to run
100Mb/sec over them.

I'm not sure what level of sophistication you actually need for balanced
audio though - does anyone have any experience?

The other thing to be careful of is "CAT5 UTP" vs. "CAT5
STP" - the U and S
stand for "Unshielded" and "Shielded" respectively. My
personal opinion
would be to use UTP unless you have a really nasty emf situation (this
means
like a blast furnace, not like a mains supply), and then use optical fibre
instead. UTP is much cheaper, but still a lot more expensive than
"phone
wiring."

I must confess that my home system installation still has trailing flyleads
taped to the skirting boards - not exactly wife-friendly for most people,
but fortunately, I married a VB developer ;-)

Mark Harrison
European IT Manager
BP/Bovis Alliance
Tel: +44 181 423 7333
Fax: +44 181 423 7711
VT: +44 181 423 7349
SMTP: Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	gwanegau@xxxxxxx [SMTP:gwanegau@xxxxxxx]
> Sent:	Wednesday, October 14, 1998 12:58 PM
> To:	ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject:	[ukha_d] Re: Cat 5 cable
>
>
>
> Hi.
>
> I wrote:
>
> > They keep chattering about Cat 5 cable over in c.h.a., and
there's
> > lots of web sites with its specification, but is it called Cat 5
in
> > the UK?
>
> Rick and Mark confirmed it _is_ called cat 5 in the UK. Thanks to you
> both. Now, what about a good cheap supplier?
>
> Incidentally,
> 1) the crap at the bottom of my original message about Visa cards was
> nothing to do with me;
> 2) The "Reply-to" header in UKHA list messages is set to the
> author, not the list. Is that a good thing?
>
>
> Happy days
> Geraint
>
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