Hi Yaron! Congrats on the new mortgage! Here I just have cat 5e that I got a spool of at Menards. 1000ft if I remember right, about $80. I didn't get fancy with patch panels, just some biege boxes that mount on the wall with 6 jacks. These things can house coax, rj11 and rj45 jacks, probably more. The jacks themselves are just inserts that fit in the beige box. These same inserts fit in the wall plates as well. If you need more than 6, and have a big budget, then you might indeed want to look at patch panels. I got all this stuff at Menards. Personally, as far as hubs/switches go, I'd stay away from any linksys stuff. Both mine and a friends turned out to be total garbage. Again, congrats! Mike Jentges On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Yaron wrote: > Hey all, > > Well I'm finally going to have a house, and I'm thinking that wiring the > place up would be a better idea than running cable over the place, and > bulk cable/crimpers/jacks are cheaper than TWO wireless NICs and can > serve a whole buttload of machines. > > So, anyone have any advice, such as good places to get bulk cable, whether > I should spend more on cat6 rather than 5e or 5, whether I should get > patch panels or just some switches, if I should consider running anything > except ethernet, etc? > > TIA, > > -Yaron > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >