From owner-freebsd-net Thu Jun 1 10: 5: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from imail3.pica.army.mil (imail3.pica.army.mil [129.139.10.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EEAC37BF3C for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 10:04:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from onguyen@pica.army.mil) Received: by imail3.pica.army.mil with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 13:04:06 -0400 Message-ID: <53EB67411602D211846900A0C9C7647A0784E991@mail3.pica.army.mil> From: "Nguyen, Olivier T [AMSTA-AR-CCF-D]" To: 'Jasper Wallace' , MG_Tak Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Off topic, sorta: home RJ-45 wiring Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 13:05:04 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org check this site out http://www.elrcastor.com/rj45.html -----Original Message----- From: Jasper Wallace [mailto:jasper@ivision.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 1:03 PM To: MG_Tak Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Off topic, sorta: home RJ-45 wiring 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message