One other option, although I hate to suggest it but will admit to having done it a few times...
Ethernet uses only two twisted pair. Cat-5 wire has four pair inside. You can crimp two RJ45 terminals on one lenght of CAT5 wire. It works and remains CAT5 if you keep the pairs twisted all the way into the terminals. OK, yes it's "unclean" and ugly but the uglyness is inside the wall in back of a cover plate and the user sees two RJ45s where there was one before. That said, last time I got to wire a new office we pulled double the number of Cat5 as required but only terminated it as required. in either rj45 or 11. You might concider using wireless for the phones. Ether a wireless LAN or just wireless analog phones. Ether way no wires. As I remember the average cost to pull a wire ad terminate both ends is about $100. cheaper than a wirelass adaptor. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > > Dustin Goodwin > > Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 11:18 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] ADSI phone vs. IP phone > > > > > > Why wouldn't you just use your existing Ethernet > > infrastructure putting > > the IP phones inline between the wall jack and the PC? There are a > > > number of IP phones that have builtin switch/hub that allows > > the PC to > > daisy chain off the IP phone. > > Probably because it's well known that these setups are prone to > failure > of either the PC's connection, the phone's connection, or degredation > of > one/both. It also breaks switch envirenments where spanning-tree > portfast is enabled (not as big of a deal if the deployment is in > concert with the infrastructure group, as it should be). ===== Chris Albertson Home: 310-376-1029 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 310-990-7550 Office: 310-336-5189 [EMAIL PROTECTED] KG6OMK __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
