I would be grateful if someone could upgrade my knowledge on new
techniques to lay down fiber cable in urban areas, either in sewerage,
water conduit or directly in their own protective duct.
Are there any new techniques which enable minimum digging and damage to

I'm having a CAT5 network cabling issue and am fresh out of
troubleshooting ideas.  The cable is a CAT5 stranded cable, which I
made to be about 100 feet long.  Each end uses an RJ-45 connector and I
made the cable a crossover cable to connect two NICs directly (pins 1-3

Hello all.  I need to replace an old building-to-building 50-pair
burried cable (for voice) and was wondering if I can use an existing
Fiber run.
If so.  What do I need on each end of the run?

I'm attempting to interface serial devices using standard Category 5
cables, since they are cheap, widely available, and can be manufactured
in long lengths.  To achieve this, I have obtained several adapter kits
that convert D-Sub 9 and D-Sub 25 connectors to RJ45 connectors.

I have a DSL outside splitter near the NID.
I would like to have four voice extensions (one telephone number) installed
in the house.
After browsing the web, I've decided I want to use star topology.

I did the google thing, but not a good deal of info returned.
What are the pros' using for a cable labeler?
Thanks

We had a contractor come in and do some wiring, and they used NORDX/CDT
IBDN jacks.  I think they say 6+ on them.  I have never used these, my
experience is with ATT/Lucent/Avaya/Systimax and Leviton.  So what is
the secret to taking the jacks out of the faceplate?  From what I saw,

Has anyone encountered corrosion in RJ11 / RJ45 jack / plugs? I think
this effect might be mostly limted to areas closer to the sea, high
humidity areas, in higher temperature areas and where there might be
additional airborne pollutants. Florida and Hawaii come to mind.

I realized that cat5e cable have a limit of 100 meter. What would be
the best solution if I need to do a cable drop of 500 feet?
Thanks in advance

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Phil

I hope this is not a (too) stupid question. I am running some wires in
my 2-story house and setting up a "data closet" in a closet :-) The
closet is on the second floor, so there will be a a whole bunch of
cables coming down from the attic inside the wall and then to the patch

I'm routing all RG6 cable (4 lines) in my attic to an
Antronix splitter. At least two of the cables are too
short to reach the splitter. It seems I have two options:
* use the existing cable to pull new cable.  Or,

I purchased a Fluke Intellitone 200 kit last week.  So far I'm not very
impressed, but I haven't had much time to work with it.  To those who
already have one, how do you think it compares to what you had before?

I'm fully aware that it looks like I'm beating up a dead horse, but
there's been a (relatively) new piece of evidence published by Fluke on
the 15+ years old discussion. I think it's worth to look at if you are
making this decision for yourself or the customer.

OK, this is a real easy one. Also, I know a Google search will get me 1000s
of results, but I figured since you guys have probably done so much
research on it, I can save myself an hour or two sourcing.
Anyway, simple question: Where is the cheapest and best place to buy Cat5