<div dir="ltr"><div style><font color="#555555" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:nowrap">I would check out firefold </span></font></div><div style><a href="http://www.firefold.com/">http://www.firefold.com/</a> <font color="#555555" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><br>
</span></font></div><div style>They seem to have pretty good pricing on things. We bought some cable from them for a renovation that was done at work a few years ago. We had a few cat 6 cable reels that were damaged in shipping such so you couldn't unwind the cable from the spools because the spools were broke. They replaced them without much trouble. I would be more likely to go with cat6a if I could afford it. Since its rated better, it should be easier to get to run at gigabit speeds. There are also RJ45s that are designed for CAT6. They are different in that they are designed to not need as much cable to be untwisted compared to ones that are designed for CAT5 or CAT5e. I am not sure what the difference is between the CAT5e and CAT6 keystone jacks. </div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Once you get your cables ran, they would be swell for a linux media server setup. </div><div style><br></div><div style><br></div><div style>I hope this helps! </div><div style><br></div><div style>
-Ed Liddle </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Rick Hornsby <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richardjhornsby@gmail.com" target="_blank">richardjhornsby@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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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).<br>
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There are no $4000 (or $15k) 10G switches in my future, if that matters.<br>
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Is there an online outlet that is recommended for materials like keystones, patch panel, etc? I have most or all of the tools, but it has been several years since I've done any wiring like this. I have a pretty old and simple ethernet cable tester that worked okay for CAT5, once I figured out that the light pattern of a good cable wasn't what the directions said it should be.<br>
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