[aclug-L] Re: 100' Cat5 Cable

[Chris Owen <owenc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, Carl D Cravens wrote:

> On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, Chris Owen wrote:
>
> > We've gone almost the other way.  Unless we are pulling it and can't have
> > ends on it or are going extremely far, we tend to stick to pre-made
> > cables.  Usually more reliable, cheaper and definitely less of a pain than
> > making your own.
>
> Cheaper, huh?  Where are you buying your cables?

Well decent cable is about 6 cents a foot.  Good ends are about 30 cents.
100' would be $6.60 plus labor.  Last batch of cables we bought had some
100' premade that were $3.87.  Of course those numbers don't include labor
costs or the cost of the cable being screwy 2 years later because an end
wasn't on quite right.

> Of course, it helps that someone donated a full spool of cable minus
> six feet to me a year ago.  I'm only paying for ends when I want a
> cable now days.

Well we are somewhat in the same situation in that we had a lot left over
from when we wired this building.  We pulled nearly 3 miles (15,000 feet)
of Cat5 in here when we moved in.

Chris

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