[TriLUG] OT: home network question

[Magnus]

On Monday, June 23, 2003, at 09:52 AM, Greg Brown wrote:

> Second question: where is a good local place to purchase some bulk 
> Cat5e cable without breaking the bank?

Construction or renovation sites in corporate office parks.

Wiring contractors will pull from several spools at once, and not 
finish off the whole spool.  They very often will discard fairly 
substantial amounts of cable, simply because there may not be enough 
left on the spool to cover the very long runs that they are accustomed 
to doing.  For shorter runs inside of the house, you can't go wrong 
with these discards (I haven't anyway).  Best part is the price: gratis.

Since the economy is in the loo right now, I don't imagine it is so 
easy to find these sorts of projects going on anymore.  Good thing I 
stocked up a few years ago. ;-)  Whenever I would see one of these 
projects going on I'd pull over and fill the truck with as many boxes 
of CAT5 as I could fit (after asking first, of course).  Gave lots 
away.  Even threw some out when I moved.  Even with the few spools that 
I kept, there must be at least 500 meters of the stuff (not contiguous 
runs, mind you, not that a 500m run is useful anyway).

--

C. Magnus Hedemark
"From the Fury of the Norsemen please Deliver us, Oh Lord"
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