Weblog entry #121 for Steve
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Tonight I'm rebuilding Apache2 for the Nth time to test my pending NMU. Hopefully this will be the last attempt.
The next job is to find somewhere cheap to sell me 5 x 20m CAT5. The cabling in my flat is getting rather the worse for wear and probably should be redone.
With 20m segments I can run it along the walls, over doors, instead of laying it across the carpets/hallways. I've nearly killed myself too many times to count tripping over CAT5 in the dark ...
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Have you thought of buying a spool of CAT5, an RJ45-capable crimper (or wall-mount RJ-45 jacks), and a pack of cable staples? Then you can cut the lengths exactly how you want them, if you plan on having the wiring permanently installed.
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hehe...
I've considered it and mostly decided not to. I don't really have the kind of patience required for crimping. (I used to have to make up cabling in one of my previous jobs and found the whole process very frustrating.)
On a good day 8/10 cables I made were good. On a bad day I could manage 1/2.
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I find tripping over cables (and the resultant network unreliability) to be even more tedious, though.
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Probably a wise investment but it is overkill for me at the moment .. (I'd guess I'd move house before upgrading to gigabit networking.)
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http://www.broadbandbuyer.co.uk/Shop/MFR/ShopDetail.asp?ProductID =2259
Just take them with you when you move house.
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I've been tempted by those in the past, but they don't scale terribly well.
For me I'd want to have one in my "computer room" to take the link from my router, then four more to provide coverate in the rest of the place - that works out at around £250.
For that amount of money I could get a joinery person to install the cables underneath the floorboards, and still have money left over to buy beer!
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