Comp Geeks has the 1000'ft cat5e cable kit in stock again the stupidly low price of $43.15+shipping

[lobadobadingdong]

linkified

nice setup, but why two runs of coax, other than cable/sataliteTV are you running 10base2 or something on the other, or just using this for a continuos run through the house and just jumpering those that aren't being used.

 

[MainFramed]

Awesome thanks, setting up some office's right now. This deal rock s

 

[MichaelD]

Thanks for posting this.

I don't need the crimper or the RJ45s, but I did need another roll of CAT5e and a tester.

 

[zaph]

I just got the tester for 12.50 and thebag of 100 ends for 10 bux. I just got a 1000 ft box the other week, and used maybe 50 foot of it, so i didn't need the cable. I threw in a mobo cable set for 1.50 , with a 10% off coupon and shipping to the east coast the whole deal came to 29.95 . pretty good considering the tester alone around here is at least 50.00 and the ends are 20.00 for 50!.

BTW, did anyone else notice that in the closeup shot of the ends one of the gold contacts are missing? for 10 bucks, i'm not gonna mind throwing a few away, but i just gotta remember to check before i crimp!.

 

[Devistater]

Originally posted by: TTM77
I know you can do 2 hub on the same line. But what about switch? I know switch will only let your traffic go your way, but how does it know your computer is behind another switch?

Switches have no problem with that. After all your internet traffic probably goes through a dozen switches everytime you visit anandtech.com Actually though it can be complex, I barely understand some of the stuff since I've only read a couple things about it on the internet. There's lookup tables and differant ways to remember what IP addresses are where. One method your switch can use is to send out the address of a packet with a new IP address to every port, andt then whichever one reponds, thats the one is remember to use. If ever a port stops respondind to a particular IP address (like if you unplugged and moved to another port) it will try again sending to every port with one packet.

http://www.howstuffworks.com had an interesting article a couple months ago on how switches and routers worked. Its worth a read if you are interested in this.

Originally posted by: zaph
BTW, did anyone else notice that in the closeup shot of the ends one of the gold contacts are missing? for 10 bucks, i'm not gonna mind throwing a few away, but i just gotta remember to check before i crimp!.

I haven't checked any before I crimp, and so far I haven't gotten any missing one either. Although when the 1000' box came (they stuffed the bag of connectors inside the cable box) The bag on mine had broken at one end and a few connectors were in the box I had to put them back into the bag. And I noticed one or two metal prongs from the ends were lying in the box So somewhere I'm missing one, but I dont bother to check them before I crimp.

 

[DaRana1]

Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
linkified

nice setup, but why two runs of coax, other than cable/sataliteTV are you running 10base2 or something on the other, or just using this for a continuos run through the house and just jumpering those that aren't being used.

Why not? Goes back to the, if pulling one, why not pull two?

A couple things that might run on coax:

- Subwoofer
- video (not TV, home security system)
- closed-circuit pornography in every room of the house!
- okay run out of ideas

 

[lobadobadingdong]

closed-circuit pornography in every room of the house

LOL, that's illegal in many states

forgot about cc tv for securty cameras.

 

[AbsolutDealage]

For all of you who want to make some patch cables and are afraid about the "solid conductor" cat5e that the geeks has on this deal, check out this one. 1000ft cat6+100 30u ends for $52.95+shipping. Not too bad, but definately not as hot as the $43.15-10%+shipping for the cat5e.

 

[ShowdOWN]

so how are the quality of these cables?

i have a new construction home coming up soon and would like to get every room networked to a central closet.
its going to be a pretty nice house and im wondering if its worth buying these cables or going to home depot
and getting better quality cables. i dont want to have to deal with any issues in the future.

is this a good idea?

 

[Jombo]

Originally posted by: <B>TTM77</B>
I know you can do 2 hub on the same line. But what about switch? I know switch will only let your traffic go your way, but how does it know your computer is behind another switch?

the big difference btw a switch and a router is the fact that switch filters the packet and won't let a broadcast go through, where as hubs are just dumb repeaters that boosts the signal down the line. in a home, you usally don't need to get a switch since the broadcast traffic is limited, but in a multi node settings, the bouncing broadcasts forwared by the hubs will eat up much of the bandwidth. but w/ the hub or switch or even the small home router prices the way they are, there really isn't a need to get a switch.

btw, if you want to share a single cable modem among multi comps, having a router will be easier to manage as just assigning the ip address provided by your broadband provider to the router and have the router DHCP the rest of your comps will make your life easier and save you some moeny on having to get a second IP addy from them. (maybe old news now tho..)

 

[DaRana1]

Originally posted by: ShowdOWN
so how are the quality of these cables?

i have a new construction home coming up soon and would like to get every room networked to a central closet.
its going to be a pretty nice house and im wondering if its worth buying these cables or going to home depot
and getting better quality cables. i dont want to have to deal with any issues in the future.

is this a good idea?

Showdown:

I've run about 3000' of this stuff so far, 2500' for network, 500' for audio, and not had a problem with it yet. My longest run is probably about 150'? I have not put a Fluke on the line to check for cross-talk, etc, yet (someone "borrowed" from work and hasn't returned it ... at least I was going to return it!) but have not had any problems at all.