What's the going price for a 1000' box of Cat 6 cable? Is there a good place to buy it in Winnipeg, or order online? I'm thinking of running some network cable in my house, most likely 1 GbE. I had previously used Cat 5E. Should I stick with that instead of 6?
I usually buy cable from either FS.com or primecable.com. If you have a PST# you can get it faster w/o shipping at Anixter or EECOL or any other electrical distributor.
Cat 6/6A/7 is good if you want to run multi-gig or 10GBASE-T. *Significantly* harder to work with and terminate compliantly than Cat5e - strongly recommend the "self-terminating" jacks both M and F if you go that route.
IMHO, YMMV, etc.
-Adam
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What's the going price for a 1000' box of Cat 6 cable? Is there a good place to buy it in Winnipeg, or order online? I'm thinking of running some network cable in my house, most likely 1 GbE. I had previously used Cat 5E. Should I stick with that instead of 6?
you dont need a pst to shop at eecol bought lots stuff there without one shrug
On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 9:30 PM Adam Thompson athompso@athompso.net wrote:
I usually buy cable from either FS.com or primecable.com. If you have a PST# you can get it faster w/o shipping at Anixter or EECOL or any other electrical distributor.
Cat 6/6A/7 is good if you want to run multi-gig or 10GBASE-T. *Significantly* harder to work with and terminate compliantly than Cat5e - strongly recommend the "self-terminating" jacks both M and F if you go that route.
IMHO, YMMV, etc.
-Adam
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What's the going price for a 1000' box of Cat 6 cable? Is there a good place to buy it in Winnipeg, or order online? I'm thinking of running some network cable in my house, most likely 1 GbE. I had previously used Cat 5E. Should I stick with that instead of 6? _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list Roundtable@muug.ca https://muug.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable
May have changed. I tried to buy something from them several years ago without a business, they wouldn't take my money. People change, so do companies. -Adam
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you dont need a pst to shop at eecol bought lots stuff there without one shrug
On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 9:30 PM Adam Thompson <athompso@athompso.netmailto:athompso@athompso.net> wrote: I usually buy cable from either FS.com or primecable.comhttp://primecable.com. If you have a PST# you can get it faster w/o shipping at Anixter or EECOL or any other electrical distributor.
Cat 6/6A/7 is good if you want to run multi-gig or 10GBASE-T. *Significantly* harder to work with and terminate compliantly than Cat5e - strongly recommend the "self-terminating" jacks both M and F if you go that route.
IMHO, YMMV, etc.
-Adam
Get Outlook for Androidhttps://aka.ms/AAb9ysg ________________________________ From: Roundtable <roundtable-bounces@muug.camailto:roundtable-bounces@muug.ca> on behalf of Kevin McGregor <kevin.a.mcgregor@gmail.commailto:kevin.a.mcgregor@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, February 26, 2024 9:22:48 PM To: Continuation of Round Table discussion <roundtable@muug.camailto:roundtable@muug.ca> Subject: [RndTbl] Cat 6 cable
What's the going price for a 1000' box of Cat 6 cable? Is there a good place to buy it in Winnipeg, or order online? I'm thinking of running some network cable in my house, most likely 1 GbE. I had previously used Cat 5E. Should I stick with that instead of 6? _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list Roundtable@muug.camailto:Roundtable@muug.ca https://muug.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable
its just a cash sal they get weird sometimes depending who ur dealing with
On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 9:49 PM Adam Thompson athompso@athompso.net wrote:
May have changed. I tried to buy something from them several years ago without a business, they wouldn't take my money. People change, so do companies. -Adam
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*From:* Roundtable roundtable-bounces@muug.ca on behalf of Adrian Stoness tdk.knight@gmail.com *Sent:* Monday, February 26, 2024 9:45:01 PM *To:* Continuation of Round Table discussion roundtable@muug.ca *Subject:* Re: [RndTbl] Cat 6 cable
you dont need a pst to shop at eecol bought lots stuff there without one shrug
On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 9:30 PM Adam Thompson athompso@athompso.net wrote:
I usually buy cable from either FS.com or primecable.com. If you have a PST# you can get it faster w/o shipping at Anixter or EECOL or any other electrical distributor.
Cat 6/6A/7 is good if you want to run multi-gig or 10GBASE-T. *Significantly* harder to work with and terminate compliantly than Cat5e - strongly recommend the "self-terminating" jacks both M and F if you go that route.
IMHO, YMMV, etc.
-Adam
Get Outlook for Android https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg
*From:* Roundtable roundtable-bounces@muug.ca on behalf of Kevin McGregor kevin.a.mcgregor@gmail.com *Sent:* Monday, February 26, 2024 9:22:48 PM *To:* Continuation of Round Table discussion roundtable@muug.ca *Subject:* [RndTbl] Cat 6 cable
What's the going price for a 1000' box of Cat 6 cable? Is there a good place to buy it in Winnipeg, or order online? I'm thinking of running some network cable in my house, most likely 1 GbE. I had previously used Cat 5E. Should I stick with that instead of 6? _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list Roundtable@muug.ca https://muug.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable
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On 2024-02-26 Kevin McGregor wrote:
What's the going price for a 1000' box of Cat 6 cable? Is there a good place to buy it in Winnipeg, or order online? I'm thinking of running some network cable in my house, most likely 1 GbE. I had previously used Cat 5E. Should I stick with that instead of 6?
My company can sell you 1000FT from many brands, and drop-ship or you pick up at a meeting or my place.
You'll want to decide if you want/need "plenum-rated" or not, as if you're going in return-air ducts (sometimes it's the only way, if even just for a few feet) that's required/recommended. Of course the plenum stuff is more expensive.
If doing just 1Gb then 5e is fine if it's done fairly well. However, with cable runs it's not usually the cable cost that is the problem, it's the time and effort needed to actually do the run. So it usually makes sense to run the best cable you can.
Adam is right: terminating CAT6 properly is generally harder than 5e, as it's less tolerant, especially if you ever jack speeds up to 10Gb and beyond. The wall-plate style patch-cable-style keystone terminations are by far the easiest, if you have a punchdown tool (can lend you one). The connector-style ones are really really really (really really) tricky. (I have all the keystones and wall plates for sale too!)
I could also lend you my box and we just note the foot marker at the start and end and bill you what you use.
I'll send you a private email with pricing.
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