Re: Medieval Home Automation

[Stuart Grimshaw <stuart@xxxxxxx>]

On Friday 07 December 2001 18:59 pm, Andrew Richards wrote:
> Mark
>
> Thanks for the prompt feedback.  Some questions in turn:
>
> - a quick look in the Farnell cat didn't show a Cat5e cable - it
either
> seems to be 5 or 6.  Where's the best place to get Cat5e cable and
> accessories?  What additional headroom does this give me?

I would go for a local supplier, like Tracey knows a good one, but the name
escapes me & "cat5" is too general a search term on this list
to be of any
use :-) I beleive the high 20's or low 30's is a good price to pay for 300
meters of cat5.

cat5e will allow you to take advantage of such things as gigabit ethernet
when it drops in price.

> - central vacuum - interesting.  Looked at it and wasn't really
convinced
> before, and structure now done so 'difficult'!

I've only ever seen it on "This Old House with Steve & Norm",
but I like the
idea ...

> - CAT5 - OK, I'll up the quantity!

and now up it again. :-) I doubled the amount I was going to wire into the
liunge, and now I still need more :-(


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