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[quote user="yankee flyer"] <p>Bruce</p><p>OK whats cat 5? is that the same as 4 wire telephone cable (wire)? <img src="/TRC/CS/emoticons/icon_smile_perplexed.gif" border="0" width="19" height="15" /></p><p>Lee Happy RR ing</p><p>[/quote]</p><p>No it aint.</p><p>It is 8 wires wrapped into one that are supposed to feed workstations from routers, hubs, rack panels etc. One of those can reach 100 yards from the MDF or IDF within a work building to a workstation.</p><p>I better shut up now... about to reveal my staggering lack of knowledge and ignorance for all the world to see.</p>
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