[Novalug] 8 pair or 12 pair Cat5e cables

Jay Hart jhart@kevla.org
Mon Dec 20 11:51:29 EST 2010


You know not what you ask.

Fiber NICs are $$$$$

Fiber switches are $$$$$$

Jay

> Why not go up to fibre?
> for less bulk, higher bandwidth and interference
> not to mention wiring a house / building is a long term
> investment...
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Nick Danger <nick@hackermonkey.com> wrote:
>> On 12/19/2010 11:44 PM, Jay Hart wrote:
>>> Looking to start wiring the house up.  For many of the rooms I want to
>>> install
>>> 2-3 ports.  Instead of running 2 or 3 separate cat5e cables, thought I
>>> would
>>> see if I can find one cable that has 8 or 12 pairs of wire and separate out
>>> on
>>> the ends and terminate.
>>>
>>> I am looking at buying a 1000ft roll of this type of cable.
>>>
>>> Has anyone used anything like this, and/or do you know where I could
>>> procure
>>> this item.  I have found one place that sells 25 pair cable by at $600+ for
>>> the roll that is out of my price range.
>>
>> I have never seen 8 or 12 pair cat 5. I have only seen the 50 pair and I
>> don't even think that is rated since its usually telco interconnect
>> class. My suggestion is to pull multiple wires, and color code them. You
>> can get Cat5e in some crazy colors these days, so if you have to pull 3,
>> pull 3 and make each a different color :-)
>>
>> Nick
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