From owner-freebsd-net Thu Jun 1 10: 3:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from stingray.ivision.co.uk (avengers.ivision.co.uk [212.25.224.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D601B37B998 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 10:03:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jasper@ivision.co.uk) Received: from [212.25.224.7] (helo=avengers) by stingray.ivision.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.04 #1) id 12xYNA-0000Hd-00; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 18:03:08 +0100 Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 18:03:08 +0100 (BST) From: Jasper Wallace X-Sender: jasper@avengers To: MG_Tak Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Off topic, sorta: home RJ-45 wiring In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-NCC-RegID: uk.instant-web MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 31 May 2000, MG_Tak wrote: > Greetings, > > This isn't exactly FreeBSD related, so I must > apologize. > > I've been using an RJ-45 cable to connect a > laptop that's in another room to the HUB in my room. > The cable runs right accross the hallway which, on > top of being ugly, is not really practical. So I > figured I could climb into my attic and run the > cable through the attic and into my room, using > wall-plugs. > > Putting holes in the wall is easy enough, but > I'm not sure about what I need, what type of cable, > etc.. Does anyone know of a web-page that would > offer some sort of guide to home-wiring? There was a thing in the us a while back (i'm sure people on the list will know more), where there was a volunteer effort to wire up local schools with cat 5, i remember comming accross several web sites with *very* good instructions on how to do all the hole drilling etc. (I think it was called 'network day' or something). -- Internet Vision Internet Consultancy Tel: 022 7589 4500 60 Albert Court & Web development Fax: 020 7589 4522 Prince Consort Road vision@ivision.co.uk London SW7 2BE http://www.ivision.co.uk/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message