The Site With the Lamp

July 11, 2008

Each of the bedrooms, the sitting room the TV lobby and of course my study are all wired with cat 6 cabling. There are 8 access points in all which includes the gate (for an IP camera, which I am yet to buy). This calls for eight keystones and face plates. At the end (which is in the library) where the switch is positioned there has to be another set of keystones. So there are 16 in all.

I am not complaining about the quality of the products. They are very good. I am complaining about their creating so much of garbage by packing each item individually. I used stuff from both IK Com and APM they are both the same. Why can't they ship then in packs of 6 or 10? why use so my polythene?

Patch cables are also packaged individually. So I didn't by all the patch cables that I needed. Some of them I made on my own. Unfortunately it didn't do much good. I wasted about a dozen RJ 45 jacks because of lack of practice in wiring it. All I had to show for it was a sore thumb from trying to push the cable into the jack.