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DO NOT SAVE MONEY ON CABLES. DO NOT SAVE MONEY ON CABLES. DO NOT SAVE MONEY ON CABLES.

Find a discount wholesaler, find a company like Graybar, where you can make all your purchases and they will not rip your eyes out. Then buy their most expensive cable. If they say it's overkill, think of silicon valley wired with Cat 3 wires. Imagine ripping out your Cat 5e cables when your telco goes fiber.

Manufacturers: (you cannot purchase from manufacturers, but they will have details and specs of the products that the distributors will not)

http://www.mohawk-cdt.com/ http://www.siemon.com/

Discount Sites:

http://lanshack.com/ http://cablestogo.com/

Click this link and shop at Tiger for a discount on networking. Do this only if you know exactly what you need. Tiger is 20% - 50% cheaper than many other vendors, but only if you get exactly what you order. If you have to return things, they pay the shipping, but it is not worth the hassle.

How to make your own twisted pair cat 5 http://www.duxcw.com/digest/Howto/network/cable/index.htm

Cat 5E & 6 Tutorial

How to Make Cat 5E / 5 Patch Cable

How to Make Category 6 Patch Cable

Home Network Example

How to Wire Phone Jack

Fiber Optic Tutorial Fiber Optic Jargon Fiber Optic Basics Fiber Optic Fiber Fiber Optic Cable Fiber Optic Termination Fiber Optic Network Fiber Optic Estimating Fiber Optic Testing Fiber Optic Training Fiber Optic Glossary

Mode Conditioning

Pulling Fiber Optic & Communication Cables

Designing Conduit Runs

 

Windows Networking http://don't bother reading just run the wizard it will do everything for you

Linux Networking Administrators Guide http://www.faqs.org/docs/linux_network/

Linux Network Commands http://rak.isternet.sk/linux-netman/commands.html

 

Tom's Networking

NeedToKnows Index

REFERENCES

David Hess and John Gold; A Practical Guide to Cable Selection, National Semiconductor Application Note 916, 0ctober 1993

Keneth M. True; Data Transmission Lines and Their Characteristics,, National Semiconductor Application Note 806, April 1992

Hubbell Premise Wiring

ConnectWorld Cable FAQ

Charles Spurgeon's Ethernet Web Site

Article Gigabit over Copper http://www.cs.uni.edu/~gray/gig-over-copper/gig-over-copper.html

Home Networking Information at HomeNetHelp.com 

"stop playing around"

A Cat5 or Cat6 network cable CAN be used to carry 2 phone lines. If you are buying top end network cables, use them for your phone line, especially if it is carrying DSL lines. Phone companies use fiber optic for their backbone and Cat 6 or similar for their to home connections.

Unshielded cable (UTP - Unshielded Twisted Pair) can be interfered with by any electronic device. Turn on your microwave and the network will be slow or down. 90% of offices and home networks in the US use UTP cables. It should be a crime to sell these cables. It's like selling a phone with a battery that dies every 5 minutes - no worse. GET STP Shielded Twisted Pair. If it does not specify, you can assume it's UTP. STP is more expensive but well worth it unless you want your morning shave to disrupt your downloads.

Pictures from our Shed Network Center:

Out of the ground conduit, using only shielded Cat 6 (Mohawk)

Up to the patch

And into the patch

Front view of patch

Then distributed to Network Jacks

Standards groups:

IAB, Internet Architecture Board, Technical Advisory Organization.

IANA, Internet Assigned Numbers Authority.

IETF, Internet Engineering Task Force, Technical Contributory Organization.

ISOC, Internet Society, Professional Organization.

RFC Editor, USC Information Sciences Institute.

Online magazines:

CNN.

InfoWorld.

Networld Fusion.

SiliconValley.com.

Space.com.

USA Today.

Security:

CERT, Computer Emergency Response Team.

Incidents.org.

Institute for Security Technology Studies.

Neohapsis.

SANS Institute.

Networking:

Firewall.cx