On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 00:03, Greg Cox wrote: > Torrey Homes wanted $50/run to install cat5 when my place was being > built. I passed on that, talked to the super, who balked at letting > me do it myself, too, so I added it myself later. The only real > suckage was that the boxes are bound to the drywall, instead of held > to the stud.
Hmm... How bad is it? > I ended up putting 4 runs to each room (except kitchen/bathrooms), > 2 runs of which go to the attic and are for mainly getting signals from > one place to another, the other 2 are for ethernet, and go to the coat > closet. There's a recessed electrical box there, where the ethernet > runs are terminated. I wired in an extra outlet for the network switch, > stuck the switch in there, and closed it up. All cat5? > Did it over a 2 week period, without ever really hurrying. It's not > that hard retrofitting if you can't get it in at construction time. > And, from what I learned about how my house is: if I'd made the wiring > decisions at preconstruction, I'd've totally had them wrong. Plus you > learn a lot about your place crawling through the attic. Like why > "3 points of contact" is a good rule, and what is/isn't a load bearing > structure, and and 3 points of contact? Please explain. Tanner -- Tanner Lovelace | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://wtl.wayfarer.org/ --*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*-- GPG Fingerprint = A66C 8660 924F 5F8C 71DA BDD0 CE09 4F8E DE76 39D4 GPG Key can be found at http://wtl.wayfarer.org/lovelace.gpg.asc --*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*-- This would be a very good time to hang out with the Open Source people, before they get formally reclassified as a national security threat. -- Bruce Sterling _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
