Re: OT Blue Cable : was RE: 802.11 and distributing linux around chch

2002-05-15 Thread Nick Rout
> The person who installed the cable > has left a very long coil of blue cable under the desk by these sockets, > saying that you have to have a minimum of 15m cable between the socket and > the patch panel. charging you by the metre was he? -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Solicitor, PO Box 2

Re: OT Blue Cable : was RE: 802.11 and distributing linux around chch

2002-05-14 Thread C Falconer
The 1 metre number comes from the days of coax cable, and was the minimum spacing between stations. In thicknet two vampire taps were to be no closer than every 5 metres. On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 15:50, Adrian Stacey wrote: > C Falconer wrote: > > If cables had to be 15 metres long, why can we use

Re: OT Blue Cable : was RE: 802.11 and distributing linux around chch

2002-05-14 Thread C Falconer
Bullshit! He's getting to charge you for an extra 12 metres of cable, thats all. The only offset would be if you ever wanted to relocate those outlets, you'd have slack cable to do it. I generally leave a metre or two of slack in the cable, in case we have to re-route it in the middle for any r

Re: OT Blue Cable : was RE: 802.11 and distributing linux around chch

2002-05-14 Thread Jeremy Bertenshaw
*cough* *cough* I guess he had the end of a reel to get rid of :-( > From: Guy Steven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2002/05/15 Wed PM 02:28:58 GMT+12:00 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: OT Blue Cable : was RE: 802.11 and distributing linux around chch > > speaking o

OT Blue Cable : was RE: 802.11 and distributing linux around chch

2002-05-14 Thread Guy Steven
> I had thought of that, whats the maximum run of 10M ethernet?? I have > about 60 m of that blue cable you stick in walls.. speaking of blue cable, we had the office cabled recently. We have pair of sockets close (3 m) from the patch panel. The person who installed the cable has left a very