[SGVLUG] Buying a spool of ethernet wire - cat5e or cat6? Copper or aluminum? Where? How much?

[Dan Kegel]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:05 AM, matti <mathew_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> All right! Time for a Cat6 party!!

I'll fire up the grill, and there's beer in the fridge :-)

> If the dry wall is not yet up this work will be easy!!

Ah, the walls have been dry for about 100 years, the house was built in 1912.
Picture here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:J.R._Dennison_House.jpg

> hint any attic work we need to do early in the morning
> ( lol forget doing any work after 12noon in attics!.. )

Good point!

> if you already have the dry wall up then I would use the following
> plastic boxes and cut out the back with a hack saw

Happily, I already have wall boxes installed.  The previous owner
of the house wired every room for cable TV and telephone.
All I need to do is swap out the old coax + phone wallplates
for 3 or 4 port keystone wall plates, populated with the right keystone bits.
And then magically thread the wiring alongside the old wiring.
Good thing I have a crawlspace and overalls...

> Dan, I have about 4000' of Cat6 left over from my house so you're using Cat6.  ;)
Thanks!

I "only" want to wire up three ports downstairs:
- living room
- library
- my office
and three ports upstairs:
- bedroom
- wife's office
- tv room
The wiring hub is probably going to be in the basement, near the
existing hubs for telephone and tv.
Might put an ethernet hub in the attic so I only have to run one line down to
the basement.

Monoprice's prices beat Amazon's all to hell, it seems.
3-hole plate:
http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=105&cp_id=10517&cs_id=1051703&p_id=6730
4-hole plate:
http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=104&cp_id=10426&cs_id=1042605&p_id=6543
tv:
http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=104&cp_id=10426&cs_id=1042605&p_id=6543
phone:
http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=105&cp_id=10513&cs_id=1051302&p_id=7287
cat6:
http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=105&cp_id=10513&cs_id=1051309&p_id=5381

- Dan