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[Jim Ray <jim AT neuse.net>]

you need to go away and pass your venom elsewhere.  i reckon it makes a 
whole lot of sense running 3,400 Hz phone calls over cat6 cabling rated 
to 10,000,000 Hz.  duh.

Regards,

Jim

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zman 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.
> >
> > so, you can put it in for the future; however, you won't be able to do
> > much with it now.
>
> Ahhh yes, looking down the road, planning for the future, hmmm... spend 
> the money put in the cat6, the labor is the same only the price of the 
> cable is different, and labor will only get more expensive, if you use 
> cat5, especially the cheap cat5 you may not even be able to run Gb, it's 
> junk, it's fine for 100base but that's about all. Do it right the first 
> time and don't have to do it again.... cat6 will give you leeway for the 
> future...
>
>
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