need help with cat 6 cabling

[Skinner]

Ok I was given a spool of around 300 or 400 feet of cat 6 cable and was wanting to run cable to a couple areas around the house. I have a crimper to make the ends but wiring in the cable is very britle and I am unable to make my connections. I was wondering if there was anyone here that had that has done this before and could give me a hand. need to run some more line and make the ends.

 

Also the main reason I am doing this is I plan on putting a wireless router/swich in the kitchen (since its in the middle of the house). I am wanting to know what brand/model i should pick up. I currently have a linksys 4 port router switch that I have in the basment and the wireless router will be link off that. Oh and this is for a Mac powerbook.

 

 

TIA

[excell]

Shawn, I can terminate the ends. I've done, oh, about 1000 of them.

 

Run the cable and gimmie a call when you are ready to crimp. I'll swing by and knock them out.

[iwishiwascool]

I have a D-link that G router has been flawless for almost 2 years. Did you mean to put cat 5? There is such thing as cat-6 but it is a lil less common as it is used for faster data transfer aplications.

[Rally Pat]

there really isnt that much of a difference between cat 5 and 6, both are used to create standard ethernet cables umong other things.

[Skinner]

no its cat-6.

Chris Ill give a you a call can you PM me your number

[excell]

Done.

[Skinner]

called and left a message. If you want to do it tomorrow (monday) I wont be home till late in the evening. let me know.

[thorne]

CAT 6 is very similar to CAT 5 . Its rated at gig over copper though.

[Guest mrhobbz]

Cat5e: 100mhz

Cat6: 200mhz

 

With better signal-to-noise ratio, yay for gigabit copper.

[stolen 5.0]

yes, the cat 6 has more twists in the pairs also.

[thorne]

Category

 

 

Type

 

 

Spectral B/W

 

 

Length

 

 

LAN Applications

 

 

Notes

 

Cat3

 

 

UTP

 

 

16 MHz

 

 

100m

 

 

10Base-T, 4Mbps

 

 

Now mainly for telephone cables

 

Cat4

 

 

UTP

 

 

20 MHz

 

 

100m

 

 

16Mbps

 

 

Rarely seen

 

Cat5

 

 

UTP

 

 

100MHz

 

 

100m

 

 

100Base-Tx,ATM, CDDI

 

 

Common for current LANs

 

Cat5e

 

 

UTP

 

 

100MHz

 

 

100m

 

 

1000Base-T

 

 

Common for current LANs

 

Cat6

 

 

UTP

 

 

250MHz

 

 

100m

 

 

 

 

 

Emerging

 

Cat7

 

 

ScTP

 

 

600MHz

 

 

100m

[excell]

called and left a message. If you want to do it tomorrow (monday) I wont be home till late in the evening. let me know.

 

I'll call you later.

[thorne]

if you have any left let me know. I am almost out in my box and could use some to run a couple my runs. we can trade or cash for it.

[Mark1647545493]

Shawn, if you need that cat6 tested after you get the ends crimped on I can bring by my fluke tester. Your on the west side right?

 

Thorne, How many and how long of runs do you need? If you only need cat5e I can hook you up with about any length. If you want cat6 I think I only have up to 30ft. patch cables. PM me if you want some.

[Mark1647545493]

oh BTW cat5e will do gig as well.

[excell]

Shawn, if you need that cat6 tested after you get the ends crimped on I can bring by my fluke tester. Your on the west side right?

 

 

I have a tester.

[thorne]

mustang nut that is true but after a certin distance ( I cant rember) it will get VERY VERY unreliable. just like CAT3 can do 100mbit. For that matter i did 10mbit ( I think onoly 10) over Flat Satin.

 

 

But yeah the run i need is only i think 25 foot and only cat5/5e I don't need gig . just trying to get a run upstairs to my ps2 I will pm you latyer once i messure.

[Mark1647545493]

mustang nut that is true but after a certin distance ( I cant rember) it will get VERY VERY unreliable. just like CAT3 can do 100mbit. For that matter i did 10mbit ( I think onoly 10) over Flat Satin.

 

 

But yeah the run i need is only i think 25 foot and only cat5/5e I don't need gig . just trying to get a run upstairs to my ps2 I will pm you latyer once i messure.

 

cool.

I thought the length was Just under 300ft isn't it. I agree if you need to move data at a gig over copper the best bet is to use cat6.