On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 14:30:43 +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote: >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 :)
I like the 3COM four port managed switches that fit into the outlet box in the wall. Handles QoS, POE & a POTS line if necessary. Keeps your LAN up if the SIP phone dies. Michael -- Michael Graves [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Product Specialist www.pixelpower.com Pixel Power Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] o713-861-4005 o800-905-6412 c713-201-1262 _______________________________________________ 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
