Anyone know where I can buy locally in Darwin rolls of CAT5 Stranded & connectors?
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I dont know if many folks in town will have stranded cable, most will be solid cable for in-wall installations.
Stranded connectors will also be harder to find, and more expensive to buy than solid connectors.
What type of installation is this for? Are you making some big-arse patch leads?
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well the truth is I am going remote haha but I got it from MM thanks guys
Dick smith doesnt sell unmade cable anymore, in fact they only have Cat6 anyway
i ended up with solid but MM said they could order in stranded if required. just for future reference if anyone is looking & yes it is more expensive.
I work at remote communities a lot and need cable size flexibility so its easier & cheaper for me to create my own rather than buy all different sizes. I just ran out of my last roll recabling the bosses office!
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So are you using it for structured cabling? (inside walls, to patch panels, points etc)
Or is it for patch leads like you are going to run over the floor, under desks etc and just crimp ends on to it to go straight into the computer? If you crimp ends for stranded onto solid cable you will end up with data errors. (they wont crimp correctly)
I'd have almost a full roll of stranded cat5 I'd probably offload for a couple of cartons...
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Originally posted by SperO View Postits for everything but mainly general use. I dont cable I dont have a license for cabling
There is no general cable designed for everything, however you can get crimps for solid cable. (it just doesn't bend as nicely as stranded cable. The inserts you crimp for solid go alongside the cable for the connection.
It's no real concern of mine about the cablers licencing situation, but if they dont know what they are doing then the client will lose data integrity.
[/QUOTE]im not sure my work would cover the carton cost haha but ill ask and keep it in mind[/QUOTE]
cheers. It'd end up being half the cost of your MM cable...
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You need a licence to make those types of cables too if the bits they carry have the potential to enter a carrier network. Strictly speaking unless you are a licenses cabler you should only use C ticked pre made cables, unless their is a physical gap between your network and a carrier network. Of course there are a number of cabling rules that are just plain stupid and written by people with vested interest.
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yea Im not terminating into wall sockets or anything. The extent of my "cabling" was installing my own conduit on the wall bringing it over the roof and connecting it to a port on the other side of the room. I call it cabling because it sounds cooler technically it was cabling haha.
doesn't look like we are going to go the way of your stranded right now but if you still have it when I run out of this stuff I'll hit you up.
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