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- Subject: Re: Phone Wire
- Date: 23 Feb 1996 00:44:13 GMT
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- >>>>> "Harry" == Harry V Quackenboss <quack@quackenboss.com> writes:
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- >Harry> EIA Category 5 is now available in 500 ft rolls for less than
- >Harry> fifteen cents per foot, and even less in larger quantities. At
- >Harry> this price, you are buying insurance that you can run faster
- >Harry> digital technologies coming in the next few years.
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- >A local place (Baltimore area) quoted me under $100 for a 1000 foot
- >roll of Category 5 twisted pair (4 pair). How much more expensive can
- >it be than Category 3 or that untwisted stuff? Needless to say, we
- >had our new townhome wired with home runs of it, so we should be able
- >to run a 100 MB/s network over the phone wiring. I just hope I don't
- >need to put the router in the unheated garage :-).
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- Well.... Home Depot has cat3 for about $60-$70 per 1,000ft.
- I am sure you can fine a better price.
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