OT: recommended home network installer

[Kurt Granroth]

On Tuesday 24 December 2002 01:50 pm, Kevin Brown wrote:
> Kurt Granroth wrote:
> > Our new house came (mostly) pre-wired with cat-5 and cable going to
> > most rooms.  I say "mostly", though, because the cat-5 was never
> > connected into any switch in the OnQ section and one room never got any
> > wiring at all. Since that room happens to be my main computer room,
> > it's the one room that really needs it.
> >
> > So what I need is some outfit that can come out and do the following:
> > 1. Install two net cat-5 wires (one each for network and phone) into an
> > existing room.
> > 2. Setup my OnQ box to have all rooms be networked
> >
> > I know I could go with the company that installed the system in the
> > first place... but I wasn't very impressed when I talked to them and
> > their prices seemed a bit high.  I was hoping that others on this list
> > would have had some work like this done on their house and would have
> > recommendations on good local companies.
>
> My Dad did the wiring in this house, so I don't have any recommendations
> for someone to do that.  OnQ box?  I'm guessing this is basically a patch
> panel and you need a hub/switch to hook the connections to?  That part is
> very easy to do. I maintain the patch panel/wiring at my current job.

OnQ is indeed the patch panel.  I'm sure given some reading, I could handle 
the OnQ box itself (put a few connectors on the cat5e cables + add a 
switch).. but I'm not about to wire the existing room.  It's going to 
require crawling up in the attic and I get a bit claustrophobic.
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