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Title: cat5 cable type
Post by: [TiG]ABE on June 24, 2009, 11:16:08 AM: hi just looking to buy sum cat5 cable.

is this the right type http://www.cablemonkey.co.uk/acatalog/Booted_Lead.html (http://www.cablemonkey.co.uk/acatalog/Booted_Lead.html)

should i got shielded or not as i am going to push the cable down the tv socket into the downstairs room.
what is booted and unbooted?
Title: Re: cat5 cable type
Post by: [TiG]Nietzschean on June 24, 2009, 11:21:14 AM: cat5e unshielded, or cat6

http://www.cablemonkey.co.uk/acatalog/RJ45_Boot.html is what a boot is(the plastic bit that comes up around the rj45 connector), so if you want one on the cable already kinda depends on what your using them for....
Title: Re: cat5 cable type
Post by: [TiG]ABE on June 24, 2009, 11:33:30 AM: just using it to connect the pc to the downstairs router.
Title: Re: cat5 cable type
Post by: [TiG]Nietzschean on June 24, 2009, 11:37:29 AM: well its mostly to avoid damaging the rj45, but unless your planning on doing crimping with the cables or that i'd probably get it booted should survive longer...
Title: Re: cat5 cable type
Post by: [TiG]Grim on June 24, 2009, 03:14:29 PM: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CB-197-BE&groupid=701&catid=48&subcat=1069
Title: Re: cat5 cable type
Post by: [GIT]Fairy on June 24, 2009, 04:49:20 PM: Speak to someone at yer college and they'll fix you up. Either borrow a crimper and crimp the ends when you have the cable in, or better still two tidy surface mount boxes and some network points, they can be wired like a phone extension using a termination tool.

From memory B&Q or Home base do a kit at around ?35 for everything you need more or less:

Networking starter kit (http://www.diy.com/diy/jsp/bq/nav.jsp?action=detail&fh_secondid=9686681&fh_view_size=10&fh_location=%2f%2fcatalog01%2fen_GB&fh_search=network&fh_eds=%C3%9F&fh_refview=search&ts=1245858601533&isSearch=true)
Title: Re: cat5 cable type
Post by: [TiG]Nietzschean on June 24, 2009, 05:43:02 PM: fyi only tool needed is the crimper, the sockets are generally self-crimping (though i suspect you know that, but for others...)

if you can go as dermot suggests it would be the best approach(i've done it in a few places when i'm not lazy), can be quite neat little box and then just use small cat5e cables on either end to plug them into switch/pc/dsl...
Title: Re: cat5 cable type
Post by: [GIT]Fairy on June 24, 2009, 05:52:22 PM: Didnt know they where self crimping. Could prob send you some bits and bobs in the post colly if you can wait a few weeks.