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going to recable my home network

green is straight cables
orange is crossover
Blue I make my own T1 cables

I have been looking all over and found a great price on cables.
I have already made tons of straight and crossover and T1s before
and now I just want to but different color coding to keep stuff straight and need

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higherho

If your going to recable your home network why not use CAT 6?

EDIT

Just saw the price of those cat 5's. Very nice!

Priston

10 footer cat 6 is just a $1.30 more

If you get them, tell us how the service and delivery there is.

itdaddy

I will tell you how the service and the quality of cables. It is nice to have color cables for crossover and color for straight and I make my own T1s and try to keep colors consistant. What I have discovered is my lab looks like crap with 10 different colored cables hahahha LOL.

I am actually redoing things a little I might even change types of racks. What I have found is I have cables all over the place trying new things and then it gets so messy. So I am going to group routers with routers and switches with switches on a shelved unit and then make it easy to switch labs and then do topologies for them.. I am going to try to put pics on my blog so you guys can get some ideas but I need to be flexible and my goal is to be neater....I hope..I will post pics of my new way of doing my labs with my new rack..this is an experiment so here goes..hee hee

Excellent1

I've always used monoprice for cables and other misc. lab items.

Cat 5e Network Cables

1 each of the 10ft Cat5e are 1.59, 2 or more are 1.52. Just tossing it out there for consideration.

MAC_Addy

Excellent1 wrote: »

I've always used monoprice for cables and other misc. lab items.

Likewise for me. They're very good for all types of items. Fast shipping and if you need to make a change on the order it is very easy to do so.

Panzer919

Excellent1 wrote: »

I've always used monoprice for cables

+1 - They have good prices and shipping is usually very fast for me.

nerdydad

I just bought like 35 cables on Amazon for 1 cent each mix of 3' and 7', with shipping it worked out to around 50 cents each, I only use them in the lab, but so far so good. I figured I couldn't make them for that.

Amazon.com: RiteAV - Cat5e Network Ethernet Cable - Blue - 7 ft.: Electronics

Amazon.com: RiteAV - Cat5e Network Ethernet Cable - Blue - 3 ft.: Electronics

alan2308

Excellent1 wrote: »

I've always used monoprice for cables and other misc. lab items.

Cat 5e Network Cables

1 each of the 10ft Cat5e are 1.59, 2 or more are 1.52. Just tossing it out there for consideration.

But Cables and Kits waves shipping if your order is over $25 so you have to take that into account as well.

SteveLord

CableandKits.com is not loading at the time of this post. -1 hehe

Longtime monoprice fanboy here. I prefer a history of quality over a few bucks anyday.

Patel128

I have used Cables and Kits for a lot of equipment for my lab. They have amazing service and shipping was good. Plus they pack in a fun size M&M candy with all of the packages.

alan2308

I forgot about the M&M's. That's even better than the no shipping thing.

Your move monoprice.

mattlee09

alan2308 wrote: »

I forgot about the M&M's. That's even better than the no shipping thing.

Your move monoprice.

No, but seriously.

I bet the next purchase I make is from Cables and kits. I'm a sucker for that kinda stuff. Freshbooks.com ships a birthday cake every month? or week? to one of it's members. It's amazing.

veritas_libertas

alan2308 wrote: »

But Cables and Kits waves shipping if your order is over $25 so you have to take that into account as well.

and don't forget the M&Ms that come in the box

I've used both MonoPrice and Cables&Kits. They both have great service.

zerglings

RiteAV or Monoprice for me.

qcomer

Deep surplus here. And they ship skittles in the boxes.

Forsaken_GA

I've done alot of business with Cables and Kits over the years, and I've always received excellent service from them, they're the first folks I look at for alot of things, not just cables (they're actually pretty competitive on used Cisco gear too).

Aldur

When looking at cat6 cables monoprice seems to have the better deal.

Cables and kits: 25 ft cat6 $5.19
monoprice: 25 ft cat6 $3.26

johnd101

Check out deepsurplus.com if your looking for cheap cables.

Aldur

johnd101 wrote: »

Check out deepsurplus.com if your looking for cheap cables.

Still ~ $5 per 25 ft cat6, monoprice still wins.

ColbyG

Monoprice is great, other than the fact that they were hacked awhile back. I had to cancel my card and dispute charges, etc. Not fun. I'm still a little wary of the site.

arwes

We got burned by the Monoprice security breach a while back (hope you enjoy the flat screen TV anonymous British guy), so now anytime we order anything from them we have to call the bank and approve our order. We haven't had to order any patch cables recently, but we'll likely start using Cables and Kits in the future.

Aldur

Dang, I had no idea they had a security breach. How long ago did this happen? It's been a while since I ordered from them and thankfully it looks like my info didn't get out there.

arwes

March of last year. I know they've stepped up their security & all, but I'm still going to think twice before buying anything there.

Monoprice confirms data breach, notifies customers | Office of Inadequate Security

SteveLord

And people are still playing their Playstations arent they?

Monoprice also maintains a 9.84 6mo rating on resellerratings. monoprice.com - monoprice.com/ - Reviews, Ratings and Prices at ResellerRatings

Aldur

yea, I'll still probably order cables and other networking equipment from monoprice, even though they had a security breach a while back.

Who knows, maybe they learned something from it.

demonfurbie

i still make my own, however i dont cable all that much