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[matusiak <dave AT matusiak.org>]

I still can't believe a builder/contractor would be dumb enough to  
tell a customer "No, you can't have that."

WTF were they thinking?  No, really!  WTF were they thinking?

Mass info sharing will be the demise of the non-customer-friendly  
business and ham-fisted entrepreneur.   Long live the Internets!


On Jul 18, 2006, at 1:49 PM, Tanner Lovelace wrote:

> > 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