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

[Joe Wennechuk]

IMHO.....  Being that you're at the planning phase I would suggest the extra money on Power over Ethernet gear. It works very well, and provides much more flexibility of usage. It will save many headaches in the future and will allow you to position the wireless equipment it the optimum position.
I have found Mikrotik gear to be extremely well made, reliable, and mostly for me cheap! And just using an rj-45 with out a power brick, module, and outlet necessity very nice indeed.
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:PoE-Out
I LOVE of the mikrotik monitoring and discovery tools, especially the "Dude"
> From: aklists at mixdown.ca
> Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 18:31:39 -0400
> To: kwlug-disc at kwlug.org
> Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Best place to purchase Cat6 in K/W
> 
> > On Jun 10, 2015, at 5:59 PM, B. S. <bs27975 at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> > 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/ )
> 
> It was actually a kwartzlab post. I dug through and found it: http://kwartzlab.ca/pipermail/discuss_kwartzlab.ca/2012-September/001193.html
> 
> I’m looking at building a house and to be honest, I’m far more inclined to put cat5e throughout. Any truly long runs (say over 50m) would be cat6, but my intention would be to install a 3” metal conduit going from the basement electrical room to the attic (and another from the basement to some central location on the main floor), and then requiring ANY non-power cabling to be run through them.  I am not sure if I’d buy some 1/2” plastic conduit to run inside the walls of a given level or not (i.e. from the central conduit to a specific outlet) but I would ask that all non-power wires be left loose in the walls so I could more easily pull new cabling if the need arose.
> 
> Using a metal conduit between floors might even alleviate the need for plenum-rated cable, although to be honest most solid core cable is plenum-rated anyway. You can find 1000 foot boxes of plenum rated, solid core cat5e for about $45 on amazon, and I’d also check with local contractor outlets like Graybar to see what they can do (since you wouldn’t have to pay for shipping).
> 
> -A.
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