[colug-432] cat6 or cat6a?

[Angelo McComis]

Just remember - don't put just one run in each room. Put a couple. Maybe
even 3.

I'd like to put my router/firewall/wireless ap somewhere other than where
it is, but everything terminates in one spot, and there's only single runs
everywhere in my house.

Fiber - certainly not a horrible idea. Make sure it's multi-mode rather
than single-mode. Unless you're running a long distance point to point high
bandwidth circuit... but you would likely terminate that at your router.
You might need something like a Cisco 6509 to tie it all together though.
:-)






On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 9:17 AM, Richard Holbert <holbert.13 at osu.edu> wrote:

> On 04/12/2013 08:14 AM, Stephen Potter wrote:
> > On 4/11/2013 11:33 PM, Rick Hornsby wrote:
> >> Bought a house and am going to be running ethernet from the basement,
> through finished walls.  Wireless is nice for phones but sucks for large
> file transfers.  The question is cat6 or cat6a?  Seems like cat6 would do,
> but like cat5e, it seems like cat6a is a better cable.  Bigger and heavier,
> which may mean harder to run through the walls.  I'm not planning to run
> anything over the cable except straight ethernet (no PoE, no POTS).
> >>
> >> There are no $4000 (or $15k) 10G switches in my future, if that matters.
> > Keep in mind when you are doing things like running cable through walls,
> > you want to future proof and plan for resale.  Although you may not be
> > planning on installing and running 10G, the next owner might.  Determine
> > the cost differential of the materials (cable and connectors) and how
> > much extra work you think it will be and go from there.  When we were
> > having Cat6/Cat6A discussions with clients at my previous job, we often
> > found there was negligible difference in the materials costs, the price
> > difference was the labor.
> >
> > -spp
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> I would have them pull fiber optic cable at the same time. Like Stephen
> said, the main cost will be for the labor.
>
> -rlh
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