[PLUG] Cat 5e wiring

Marc Wolsiffer admin at marcscomputersolutions.com
Fri Oct 10 19:03:27 UTC 2008


Bruce KIlpatrick wrote:
> I have a plug in one room for a feed point.  I have two other wires all 
> connected together.   One feeds a bedroom and one runs to the living 
> room.  So, I came from a wall plug (feed point), I then took three 
> cable ends and connected three same colored wires (using round smash 
> type connectors like the phone company used), then ran the other end 
> of two cables to different rooms.
>
> Does that help paint an understandable word picture?
>
>   

you didn't accidently stick a loop back anywhere did you? Perhaps you should
stick with wireless next time, haha. Anyways I want to clear some stuff up
with a little bit of education,
keep everything T586A or T586B there both the same line just different ties
but can make for a big mess if they get mixed up. And your spice (running in
parallel circuit) cause a amperage issue in the CAT line. if only one is
hooked up it will be fine but 2 or more and you "could" fry a network card
or a router. I don't think 100' will matter as far as impedance you just
might run at 10mb/s but who cares? A spice should ONLY exist in the form of
a hub, switch, and maybe a router. 
Extending a wire should use a patch panel. Clamps and soldering "can" be
used to extend a wire but be very careful because it can send you impedance
through the roof and cause packets to be dropped like crazy. I could get
into detail about frequency and different metals but just trust me, buy a
longer wire!! :)  

I think your relating computer cable and phones too close. phone work on 1
line, the computer work on 2 lines one is only incoming and the other is
only outgoing. So it's like having 2 very hyperactive teenage girls talking
to you on the phone but are unaware that the other one is talking to you.
They can only hear what you say, not what the other one is saying... could
you give them an individual IP? I doubt it ^_^ they would get confused and
keep chatting away. A switch would act like a device that divides them on
the line so you can turn one signal off to talk to teen1 and say your
192.168.1.101 and then "SWITCH" to talk to teen2 and say your 192.168.1.102
so when teen1 says MapQuest and teen2 says Google! You can actually tell
them where to go without getting confused.... Yes I did relate a computer to
a hyperactive teenage girl *gasp* they really don't shut up >_<

Computers can talk at 800,000,000 bits/sec so any static even maybe things
you can't hear with your ear can cause a huge problem in a line for a
computer. So naturally computers need to have a higher level of quality than
a phone. 

I hope this helps, and sorry for the long post. Let me know how it goes!
GL

Marc Wolsiffer
Marc's Computer Solutions
3601 SW Murray Blvd, Suite 62
Beaverton, OR 97005
503.459.1778






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