Reggie Bautista wrote:
>
> Chad wrote:
> > If you could, what
> > > phone/cable/other wall outputs would you add? I figure I'll
> > > have two cable prongs and two phone jacks on each wall.
> > > Anything else?
> >I would make sure they use CAT 5 cable. This way, you could use the phone
> >lines for POTS or for Ethernet (or token ring for you sadists out there).
> >You just have to switch the outlet box plug thingies from rj-11 to rj-45
> >type connectors.
>
> CAT 5 is rated to support 10BaseT and 100BaseT ethernet, which is what most
> ethernet cards and hubs/switches use today, but you might want to consider
> CAT5E (the E stands for Enhanced). It is rated to handle 1000BaseT. Just
> in interest of staying non-obsolete a little longer... :-)
Which is why we're paying extra for the CAT5E in our house. :) (I
think we're paying an extra $40 per jack on that. I'm wishing we'd been
able to pick the contractor for doing the wiring, because I have friends
who'd have done it significantly cheaper, but the general contractor has
his own pet subcontractors for everything, and we're making our one big
exception from his list with the company putting the bookcases into the
library....)
Julia
