[Pc_Support] Re: Cat 5 mixed bag

[Homer Whittaker]

Homer Whittaker wrote:

> I am having a self induced cabling problem right now.
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> Several years ago I installed a computer at my wifes desk which is 115 
> feet from the systems hub.  The first 10 feet or so was Cat 5 
> connecting to 85 feet of 25 pair telephone wire (which was already 
> installed) and then thru a patch panel via some more 25 pair cable out 
> to my office.  When it came into my office, I then used approx 15 feet 
> of Cat 5  to get to the hub.
> In other words a real cluge.  This setup gave up the ghost on Saturday 
> and her machine has not been able to see the internet  since ???? 
> whatever happened.
> I am now faced with purchasing a minimum order of 250 ft of outside 
> Cat 5, digging a   trench some 100 foot long and then laying out the 
> wire into her office and getting it into my office (a separate building).
> Given all the da, dq, da, can you think of any device that I can hang 
> on the mixed bag of wire than might help my wife's machine to reach 
> out and see the internet?  Most anything  beats the physical aspects 
> of laying 100 feet of outside Cat 5.
> Homer Whittaker
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