On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:08, you wrote: > Andrew Errington wrote: > > It was not a debate, it was a statement of a set of facts. > > Sorry, my bad, 'discussion' is that I should have said, and it did draw > out some really good comment :) > > > 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. > > Yes, you're on to it! :( > > Took us over 2 hours with the cable tracer to get our heads around where > the wires were running. Phone service was all on alarm cable. Data > cable that's looped from point to point. > > What do you think the cross talk on those connectors would be? > > I wasn't brave enough to plug the analiser in to it.
Wait. This was an installation you discovered? It's not something you actually did? A
