That's Graybar. One thing to watch when doing connections for higher bandwidth: The wire twist needs to be twisted up to as close to the crimp terminals on those jacks as you can get. I suspect there is not a lot (if any) difference between those for Cat 5 and Cat 6 connectors but I have not looked to find out.
Down the road you might want to consider fiber in some places. It can be more trouble to install, but it is not as likely to have lightning and surges take out equipment. Dave On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 23:47 -0500, Kevin Hart wrote: > >> What do I need to look for in jacks? I hear that the "cat 6" label is > >> more marketing. > >> > >> Recommendations on where to buy, and have them here soon, if not > >> local? > > Go down to Greybar on 8th right under 440 past Frugal McDougal if you > are heading out of down town on 8th, its on the right. I got plenty > of jacks, boxes, face plates, and patch panel there to do 6 drops at > my dad's for like 150ish I think. I really like the Leviton jacks, > ever since my days at a previous job where we did all the cabling > ourselves. We had many different bands, and the Levitons tended to > punch down better, and last longer. > > Greybar will hook you up, just get regular cat5 jacks, it will be > fine. 1000 isnt as 'unforgiving' as some make it out to be. > > -Kevin > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
