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Originally Posted by Millay
Dont whatever you do under price this job if it is for a customer, cable running is often a pig of a job, that will easilly eat into profit margins if you let it. Oh and its a lot easier/nicer to do if there are two of you.
hope that helps...
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It's for Mrs H, so I'm not likely to make much of a profit on the job!
The job will replace current phone cables, so much of it will be rerunning cable in place of the existing BT lines, the office used to be a recruitment consultants and so is wired to the hilt with phone sockets, but no networking. Looking at it, it should be a case of 1:1 replacement along the same lines so someone has already done the cable route planning for me.
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Originally Posted by Zeph
You'd need some kind of exchange system to run phone cabling through a network switch as phones dont tend to have MAC addresses... When I did my work experience they could connect the CAT5 at the cable rack end to either a network switch or a telephone exchange, hence the adaptor, it is perfectly acceptable to run telephone over CAT5, maybe clearer voice etc, better for Modems and so on, but it needs to be terminated as telephone at the other end and not connected to a hub/switch.
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I'm asking BT to put the phone sockets for their CentrEx sockets and the DSL line above where all this cable terminates, then basically use one of those thingies in post 11 to connect from the phone socket to the patch panel and another at the other end to connect the phone to the cat 5 socket in the wall. I believe that is how you do this, so some cables will terminate in the router and others in the phone sockets.