Re: Latest wisdom on Cat 6 and C-Bus

["Andrew Cooke" <acooke@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am not a cable installer, but work with them alot during my job.

I'm told that CAT6 requires special testing kits. And that to get good
results is slow and painful. In my experience if you are using an installer
they will charge somewhere between 30 - 50% more for CAT6 than CAT5.

I would simply go with CAT5. After all if you think about it, compression
technology will only get better. CAT5 can already do a 1gig network speed,
and if you using a high quality xVID/Divx then thats more than enough

Sorry I can't answer onthe C-bus part of your question
----- Original Message -----
From: "christopher purves" <CHRIS_PURVES@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 8:02 AM
Subject: [ukha_d] Latest wisdom on Cat 6 and C-Bus


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> Morn peeps,
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> Just about to agree the spec for the new house and have to make the
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> Couple of thoughts .....
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> Is Cat6 harder to install that Cat5  - is the worst case if you fluff
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> it becomes Cat5 standard ?
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> Is Cat6 an issue for things like video/composite/component over Cat5 ?
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> Does anyone know how close you can run C-Bus wiring to Cat5 wiring ?
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> Thanks
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