I ended up buying my own 500 ft roll of cat 5e since that cat 6 my buddy gave me to use was giving me fits. It was too brittle and the pairs would break when you untwisted them or moved them out of the way to cut the plastic separator in the middle of the cable.

I did buy the punch down jacks, which are neat and had an easy learning curve for me on my first time. The patch panel I bought (of course) also has punch downs which made that 10 times easier then making cables with RJ45's on them.

My ISP is nowhere near gigabit, so cat5e works just dandy. That is fast enough to stream an HD movie, which is good for anyone watching The Mack (your homework during recovery, Russ) or anything else on my server.

Next project is to rebulld my media server next weekend with more drives in a new configuration to provide data redundancy.

unRAID (For anyone needing help falling asleep tonight): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-st..._levels#unRAID

 

Gotta go to the VA Tuesday for staple removal and check so that's gonna take her out of circulation for the day.

 

Are you still using a walker, Russ?

And tell Kristi we're praying for her and her father.

 

Sorry to hear. Seems like everything is being compounded?

 

Hopefully one like this:




pew pew pew

 

No wonder you never get laid. You're always pulling your wire!

 

I don't know that those will help, Mark. But it would be cool.

 

I pull it for a while then it gets terminated

EDIT:

But my punch down technique is getting pretty good!

 

Yep, still on the walker. Hopefully I can move to a crutch next week. Thanks for the thoughts guys. It has definitely led to some new "contingency" conversations around here.

 

How old is Kristi's Dad?