Cat5/Cat6 Data courses

[eskimo39]

Hi does anyone know of any courses in Cat5/Cat6 Tv, Data & CCTV installation courses.

Really fancy looking into this line of work.

Thanks

 

[gnuuser]

you can daisy chain cat 5 but i dont recommend it
any break or joint in the wire leaves a weak spot open to corrosion and signal leakage.
an arcnet network can be daisy chained and is usually called a token ring lan.
this network generally uses rg type cabling and bnc connectors
heres a wiki on cat 5e and another on arcnet
Category 5 cable - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

ARCNET - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
hope these help

 

[Stroppy]

Cat5/6 etc twisted pair is designed to work as a star topology, not a bus topology like 10base2 thin ethernet is, so I would be surprised if it would work at all when turned into a bus! Would be a lot less fault tolerant too. Just take a separate cable from the origin to where it is needed.

 

[gnuuser]

That is the reason I don't recommend it.

I did it once for a tightwad boss even after I told him there would be problems with it, he still wanted it done that way.
I was called back to change it a week later.
Got paid twice for it.

 

[Stroppy]

Did it work at all?

 

[gnuuser]

yes it worked but you could only use one computer on it. any more would have caused data/ communication faults
but you had multiple places you could connect to.

i told him it would only work like that but he didn't believe it.
ran new cables to each box to a hub so they could use more than one computer

 

[Stroppy]

Ha! Pretty much useless then! Some people won't be told eh?

 

[gnuuser]

That's for sure!
its too bad that many people base all their decisions by their money
And end up paying more later
He could have saved more by listening in the first place