[kwlug-disc] Best place to purchase Cat6 in K/W

[Colin Mackay]

Yes!   Good point.   I had forgotten about that discussion.   I will probably end up with cat5e in that case.   I have no runs longer than 30 feet, really...

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FWIW, there was a long discussion not that long ago definitively showing that cat6 was pointless - in the home / outside the server room, at least. Little benefit over 5e, harder to work with, and termination requirements impossible for human hands to effect within spec. [Short of bonds, the equipment for which is seldom seen in the home due to expense, you'll never do more than 2Gbps / full duplex in the home, for which 5e is more than sufficient.]

And ... just in case ... don't forget, you'll want plenum rated cable, regardless of what you go with. (Heat/fire resistance.)
(Dig into the kwlug archives within the last year or two, search cat6, there will be a group of messages from Cedric within that thread. It was good reading. 
http://kwlug.org/pipermail/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org/ )

If I were looking for another box of cable, I think my first price reality check would be Home Depot.

If I were looking to buy via web, I'd probably hit shopbot.ca first.

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> From: Colin Mackay <zixiekat at gmail.com>
>To: KWLUG discussion <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> 
>Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 4:45 PM
>Subject: [kwlug-disc] Best place to purchase Cat6 in K/W
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>Good day folks!
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>I am doing a bit of renovation at home and now would be a good time to pull some network cable to rooms that don't have it yet...
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>So where do you fine folks go to get your 500ft or 1000ft rolls of cat6 cable?


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