Originally posted by festec:
This is the 21st century and apparently that is what Cat5 was originally designed for! Weather you like it not its being done daily and if you know how to install it correctly you can appreciate it. There is 100 pair phone cable behind my house it was installed in 1980 on poles, it has alarm circuits, ADSL, pots lines and what ever the phone company has running through it. Around supper time everybodys phone is ringing and everybody is on the internet and everything is running through that old 100 pair. There is no noise on my line and the Internet is OK. My house is networked on one cat5 since 1998 and it works great and looks great and cost half the price of running two separate networks ...
Touche half price ? cable is the smallest cost in the equation , the labor is roughly the same to pull one or two cables . termination costs ? your still making two terminations using two jacks .
just how much Ethernet is running on that "old 100 pair" ? (we are talking about Ethernet here )
look at the "ugly work thread here , most of that stuff "works great" if you where to ask those that installed it
there is nothing new about the concept , I recall a distributor in the early 90's touting the adapters and stating two Ethernet drops per cat5 cable or Ethernet and phone on one cable
what you do at your own house for yourself or what may be done in a existing situation with no other practical choice is one thing but to advocate and practice non standard compliant new installations as a "cabling pro" is just plain wrong and a poor practice in my opinion
there is a lot of poor , non standard compliant work being "done daily "
