RE: DIY CAT 5

["christopher purves" <CHRIS_PURVES@xxxxxxx>]

Me too - fantastic...... one comment though do **NOT** buy cheap cat5e.

Ben A. and I spent 6 days laying cat5e of varying qualities in my house -
the cheap stuff (£20 per box) kinks like a bug**r wheras the more expensive
stuff (£50 say) is a joy to use and hard to kink. I bought some of the more
expensive stuff (all solid) because I wanted different colours for
sound/comfort/cbus/data/fire/ etc etc so we had a huge selection of cables
to test over the week.

Just my option etc.

Chris


>From: "Hawes,Timothy Edward (GEG)" <haweste@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: RE: [ukha_d] DIY CAT 5
>Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 13:21:02 +0100
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>I can also vouch for Cablenet - very impressed with their service and
>prices :-)
>(no affiliation etc.)
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>Tim.
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Paul Robinson
> >
> > > > > Assuming you mean patch cables it's far far easier
to
> > buy off the shelf.
> > > > > You can get a 0.3m cable for 28p in a variety of
colours!
> > > > Do tell where...!
> > > > No doubt they'll charge 20 quid to post to N.I. ;o)
> > > www.minitran.co.uk
> > >
> > > I lied though. They're 0.5m leads. I forget where I got my
> > 0.3m ones from.
> >
> > 26p for 0.3m from Cablenet, 27p for 0.5m
> > http://www.cablenet.org.uk/catalog/ecom5utp.htm
> >
> > They also have 305m of solid cat5e for £20
> >
> > Paul
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