On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 10:08, Race Vanderdecken wrote: > Each 4-pair wire has 8 wires in the "blue wrapper" cable. > > You only need 2 pairs, 4 of the wires, for 100MB Ethernet. > > You could split the wire at the wall jack and at the switch end where it > goes through the punch down thingy (the name escapes me at the moment.) > > You only need to run 1 blue/4 pair wire cable to each desk. You could > put a small hub on each desk to split our more sockets. > > For the life of me I will never understand why people believe that each > cubical/desk needs it own 4-pair cable, CAT5 cable connect back to the > server.
There are limits to this idea of hubs, in that you can only cascade so many. If I remember rightly it's called the 5,4,3,2,1 rule. 5 segments, 4 hubs, 3 populated, 2 unpopulated, make 1 network. No doubt someone will correct me if I am wrong :) -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates; Your Linux people <http://www.lannetlinux.com> ------------------------------------------ "When you just want a system that works, you choose Linux; when you want a system that just works, you choose Microsoft." ------------------------------------------ "Flatter government, not fatter government; Get rid of the Australian states." _______________________________________________ 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
