cat5 wiring question

David A. Sinck plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Fri, 5 Oct 2001 08:49:45 -0700


I'm looking to move my elder computer out to another room, far away
from the hub.  I have the happy cat5 already, I just need some basic
wiring advice.

I have the neato leviton snapin modular doodads for the cat5 plugs,
but it has *two* guides on it.  "residential" and "business".  Well,
I'm guessing that my house is "residential" but my purpose might be
"business".  :-)

Basically, the idea I want is:

computer -- wall(1) -- cat5 crawlspace run -- wall(2) -- hub

Now, before I get detailed, is there anyone that can say "use
leviton's residential" definitively on this?  :-)  Or 'residence on
wall1 and business on wall2'?

Ok, now for painful details for you cable jockeys.

My cat5 is solid and white with stripe.

contact    residence   business
1	   gr/white    or/white
2	   green       orange
3	   or/white    gr/white
4          blue	       blue        
5	   bl/white    bl/white    
6	   orange      green
7	   br/white    br/white
8	   brown       brown  

Now, while I'm reasonably sure I can manage contacts 4,5,7 + 8, the
others I'd just as soon not guess and check.  :-)

I also have to note that the cat5 at home depot (base?) is $.12/ft
grey and .25/ft blue, but $54/1000ft grey spool and $164 blue spool.
Funny how it goes from 2x to 3x, no?  But better than buying 1k @ .25
($250). 

Grey works just fine for me.  :-)

Thanks!

David