On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:37, you wrote: > See: > http://www.bowenvale.pointclark.net/crra/rubbish/20070223/pages/Image007. >html > > The other week we debated the issue of the correct connectors for Cat 5 > cable.
It was not a debate, it was a statement of a set of facts. > Really, after you look at the link above, you'll realise that we really > are being eletist (which is kinda fun some days :) > > I snapped the image on a site I was helping out at, on Wednesday. What > you're looking at is data cabling that is 'looped thru' to more than one > wall socket. Let me get this straight- you have a Cat 5 cable from some point (say, a comms cupboard, or server area), and you punch down all 8 cores to a socket somewhere. Then you punch down (or otherwise electrically extend) those 8 cores to another socket somewhere else? I can see that this means you can plug a device into one or other of the sockets, and they are then connected back to the server area, but you are just asking for trouble when someone plugs something into both sockets. A
