Sooo unrelated question about internet.....

[skife]

yeah around here we need a buildint permit to put up an above ground pool.

in a neighboring township you need a building permit to put up a shed anything over like 12'x12 or somthing, and the township wouldn't give this guy a permit to build a polebarn.

he's got 3 or 4 11'11"x11'11" sheds in his yard housing antique tractors.

on the other hand, the neighbor's down the street put up a big old polebarn right in the middle of the city with no building permit and it was definatally out of code (within 10 feet from the property line)

[Hexis]

That's the standard ordering for all Cat5 ethernet cable. If you're not doing it that way you're not doing it right. Unless of course you're running a crossover cable, but I can't recall off the top of my head how to set that up, and you don't need it anyways.

There are a few other rules of thumb to follow that Cisco gives in their spec manuals involving the running of Cat5 cable inside of buildings. One of which is that Cat5 must be at least 6" above ground (earth) level. Cat5 cables should also cross electrical wiring at 90* angles to minimize EMF interference. That's more important than the 6" ground level rule, though. The ground level rule probably is more for long stretches of Cat5 than a short run like this.

Swap Green and Orange. They are the only two pair that carry the ethernet signal (one pair is transmit, the other is recieve). If either or both ports are GigE, no need for a cross over, GigE is auto MDX.