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["Tanner Lovelace" <clubjuggler AT gmail.com>]

> On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Jim Ray wrote:
> > cat6 is all fine and dandy.  however, i paid $450 per 1000' box due to
> > customer specs for cat6 plenum cable and pay $55 per 1000' box for cat5e
> > non plenum.  the only difference technically is that cat6 goes up to 10
> > Gb.  cat5e takes you to 1 Gb.  not many folks have 10 Gb components
> > available.

You do realize the difference between plenum and non-plenum cable, right?
Only plenum cable is rated for going inside the walls.  Non-plenum cable
should NEVER be run inside walls.  As wikipedia puts it:

"Plenum cable is jacketed with a fire-retardant plastic jacket of either a
low-smoke polyvinyl chloride (PVC) {patented 1987} or a fluorinated
ethylene polymer (FEP)."

Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plenum_cable

So, there's a reason plenum cable is so much more expensive.  Your
comparison of plenum versus non-plenum cable is at best disingenuous
and at worst fraud.  Plenum must be used in plenum spaces or you risk
having to rip it all out and put new stuff in at dramatically higher costs.

Tanner
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