Can you recommend a good crimping tool for RJ45 plugs under $100?
I'll use it mostly for me and friends, not for professional work.
Thanks.

I'm going to be doing a Cat5e wiring project in my home.  I plan on
having wall plates in various places, including the home office.  These
will all have keystone jacks.  The other ends of the cables will all
terminate in the basement, to be plugged into a switch.  These ends

I need to install 12 Cat5E into modular furniture. Would installating
an additional patch cable cause significant problems?
Does this violate the applicable cabling standards? (see below)
Floor

I'm hoping to ask the pros in this group to help me figure an unusual
problem out. I have over 6 yrs experience in tpcip networking and cat5
cabling. I have a small business and cat5 network on a daily basis...
Ok with that said the problem I'm having is running a brand new cat5

I want to use the existing coaxial connections in my house that is for
cable tv for my ethernet LAN.
Basically I would like to use a connection from my fast ethernet
switch, cat 5, somehow connect it to the coaxial cable that was built

Have a spec with keyed RJ45s called for. You know, reasoning that people
should not be able to plug a keyed data cord into a phone outlet and fry
their NIC. Probably made sense 10 years ago, but with a free NIC that you
normally get these days and central pins shortened to the ...

Does anyone know where I can get BNC Compression Fittings for RG5
Siamese Cable? Standard RG59 Compression Fittings do not work

A subcontract job I'm doing includes extending the T1 from the demarc
to the telco equipment wall in the tenent's office suite.  The
contractor has provided CAT5e UTP and jacks for this purpose.  From
what I gather, this is not the proper cable to use, and I should be

My question is regarding the transmission of multiple T1 signals on
Category-5E cables bundled together. The reason I have this question is
one of my data center customers decided to extend (48) T1 lines from
the Telco room to IVR equipment over (48) Cat5E cables. Then terminate

We have a school with several builings and dorms.  Our server room is
situated somehow in the middle and there are buldings lined up in two
directions, the farthest away is around 400m from the servers.
We need to connect LANs in each of these buildings to the servers.   I

Does anybody know what had happened to this website?
It looks like they quit, or what?
Please share if you know something.
Thank you in advance.

After looking at a few quotes from $5000-$6500 for the installation of
42 jacks in a very "rough" space, I've started considering doing this
myself.  I've got 10 years in systems admin in small shops where I
already tend to do just about everything (which in the past has

Any suggestions for resolving this problem as painlessly and
cooperatively as possible will be appreciated...
I just had an electrician run a indoor/outdoor cat5e from my office (in
an adjacent building) to the basement of my home.

My company is currently in the planning stages of moving into a new
building, approximately 200,000 sq feet, warehouse environment.  So
far, my basic plan for covering is as follows (broken out by data /
voice):

I have two Catalyst 3560G-24PS switches with Cisco 1000Base-SX SFPs. I
have some very nice Amphenol single-mode duplex jumper cables (P/N
942-625DD-10000), 50cm in length, which I would like to use to connect
the two switches.