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Cabling Technician Job - Ottawa
Demonstrated experience in working as a Cabling Technician (minimum 2 years experience) in an Enterprise environment comprising a minimum of 500 employees; MANDATORY: a.. Min 3 years (preferred 3...
 
Serial Cables - which cable should I use?
I need to make up some 30m serial cables. Can anyone advise which type of cable I need to buy, please? I only need 5 cores. Kind regards,
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Any way to organize cables that weren't labeled?
I'm taking over a wiring job in an old building. There are a approximately 80-90 cables coming down from the two floors above and none of them are labeled. I want to organize them according to the...
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Uk Regulations
What regulations cover the installation of Ethernet cable in commercial properties in the UK. I need to install data cable in an existing building - only about 24 runs, but most will run above the...
 
Data Communications Cabling FAQ
Archive-name: LANs/cabling-faq Posting-Frequency: monthly Last-modified: 1995/03/05 C A B L I N G F A Q Version 950305 This is a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) document for the newsgroup. Topics...
 
CAT5E and Romex (Electrical)
Just have a question, My understanding is that you want to keep low voltage wiring about a foot or so away from electrical when running it parallel. When crossing go at a 90 degree angel. Is that a...
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daisychain POTS phone wiring and DSL filters?
Can I insert a plain DSL filter at the house POE if the phones the filter is supposed to isolate from the DSL signal are daisychained along one cable?
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Confused on Telephone Distribution
I've been reading here and looking at web sites, and I am still confused about what I should buy I have a signal splitter (filter?) to put in the telco box in the garage, so I may send a DSL signal...
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Test-um Validator
What do people think of the validator 950 or 955? Is the unit worth the $1400?
 
Cabling Forums
It's been awhile since I've visited this boards. Used to hang around when Lizzard was around, etc. Are there any *cabling* web based forums out there or is this newsgroup the de-facto standard ;-)
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Long Cat5e runs
Hello all: I'm connecting 4 adjacent houses to a broadband satellite feed thru a Dlink DI-604. The cable runs will be 275ft, 190ft, 175ft, and 150 ft. Cable is standard cat5e flooded. Should this...
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Wiring new house
I have a question... I am helping a friend wire there house and everything is going to be home run to a central spot. I know data and that you can terminate to a patch panel and patch to a switch or...
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66 block - What did I do wrong?
I have a 50-pair, split M 66-clip connecting block, which I want to use to distribute 3 lines 9+ jacks. I did my research, wired it all up, then tried to connect it, and the lines don't go through....
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Video Wiring
Wiring a new house, and it seems that everything you do is wired to a central location. Am I acurate with that? Especially if you are using a structured media center.
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DSL router cabling question
Dear all: I did a google group search before I post this thread but please bear with me if this had been posted and answered before. I recently wired our house with regular "Category 5e" cable to...
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