Re: AVC Media Players

Bone creak is part of my reluctance, Ken, but my major hesitation is that
the wiring takes many 45 and 90 degree bends as it snakes it way from floor
to floor, room to room, etc. I used loose fitting wire staples along the
way, tight enough to hold the wiring securely in place but loose enough not
to apply any crimp or compression on the wire itself. These staples and all
the bends make the job of using one wire to pull another quite unpredictable
and likely to wind up with snags and incomplete pulls, since one end of the
wire is only able to exert a tug on the first segment of the wire before it
takes a sharp turn. I might be better off just running a whole new network.
On the bright side, I have plenty of spare time, a commodity I totaled
lacked 10 years ago when I ran the original Ethernet, so I could do it
slowly a room at a time. I also have another 400 or 500 feet of Cat 5 cable
here which is going unused, and I hate to waste wire in switching to Cat
6.......

Smarty

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Thanks Ken. Of the 7 home / office video locations I wired with Ethernet
over a decade ago, only 2 will support Gigabit (since these 2 have such
short runs), so I have using 100BaseT at well below its' max capacity to
do standard def mpeg2 video with my Sage network. I guess I will have to
bite the bullet and redo the wiring / connections with CAT 6 cable, new
switches / hubs; etc. I do run Gigabit between my video workstations and
have a couple cheap but very good Netgear switches and several NICs and
they all perform well. Now where in the world did I leave my crimping
tool?.........


Smarty


Well, it shouldn't be that costly a bullet, unless you have a really
big place. That is if you can do the work yourself. You also
have the advantage of being able to use the existing cabling to
pull the new stuff. (You might want to pull a piece of line along
with the new CAT 6, so that you will have a way to pull any
additional cabling you might want to add later. I don't know
about you but my bones creak a good deal more now, than they
did a decade ago.

Luck;
Ken




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