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To: CRUZ who wrote (6029)	12/20/1998 8:25:00 PM
From: Sofa Kingdom	of 12617

Some other returns I saw talked about Coax or Cat5 wire installs. They are right on the money. If you have a choice go to a dedicated circuit type and run cat5. Dedicated circuit type- Dedicated circuits include ISDN, xDSL, and Frame Relay. These give you a port at your provider. Cable modems are a shared media device(like arcnet). The device on the pole is essentially a passive hub. Over time you will see your line speed decrease as more and more of your neighbors start to share the same line. You get a double whammy. Increased wire length AND additional traffic. Addt'l info. on house wiring- Find a place in your house to terminate the cable runs. The point where the wires come into your house from outside is called the demark (demarcation point). Near this point in a clean dry place mount part of a sheet of plywood. Make sure you have access to electrical power as most circuit terminating equipment needs power. Dedicating a breaker to it is ideal. On the plywood sheet mount a small equipment shelf. The shelf should be large enough to hold the circuit terminating equipment and probably a small ethernet hub (or switch). 2'x 1' would be good if it fits. Cables are pulled from each room to this 'wire wall'. All 8 wires from each cable should terminate on a (cat5 rated) patch panel. The wires that are pulled from each room should be punched down on the back of this panel. The panels come in 12, 24... port varieties. Some cool ones hinge on one side so you can access the back easily. The front side has RJ45 (female) connectors. If you only want one computer connected at a time you will connect a patch cable from the port where the computer is connected to the ethernet port on the circuit terminating equipment. (Note: This patch cable may need to be reverse wired on the 8 wires rather than straight through. Depends on the terminating equipment.) If you have an ethernet hub then you need one patch cable for each port with a computer on the other end. The hub functionally reverses the wires so then you can use all straight through patch cable (or at most 1 reverse cable for the terminating equipment). On the end of the wire in each room you need a wall mount connector. Its just a single port punchdown (or two if you pull two wires to a room). If you are pulling into hollow walls conduit generally isn't necessary. If you have the interior walls insulated a conduit or wire way (uninsulated area) will save you lots of hastles should you need extra wires or have a wire break. A short straight patch cable goes from the wall plate to your PC. That's wiring 101. There is higher grade wire than cat5, but it won't gain you that much and will cost you more. The key difference in wire grades is the number of twists per foot. Above cat5 the pairs are bonded together AND twisted around each other. Cat5 will get you to 100BaseT. If you go above that speed you might want to consider fiber. But be prepared for the cost ($$$). I'm rewiring my house right now and doing just what I described above. Cat5 all around. I'll be getting ADSL (256 KB) as an incoming circuit. I'm going to put a small server near my wire wall for storage and possibly my own web page. It will be a 10baseT network and I'm hoping I can attach [ethernet]phones to the network when they start coming out (in about a year). Then I will truly be king of the geeks. Final note- don't pull cable into air ducts. That is a building code violation. Should you have a fire the PVC coating on the cable puts off poison gases. There is something called plenum rated cable that is not poisonous, but it is stiff and hard to work with. It also doesn't go around corners well. Have fun. I hope it works out well for you.

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