Tom Limoncelli wrote: > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Atom Powers <atom.pow...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Because I'm not planning to pull new CAT5 to those offices. They >> already have 2x CAT5 and 2x CAT3. While I only /need/ two runs, it >> would be a shame if I couldn't find a use for the CAT3. >> > > Doing a few runs of a lower-quality cable is very 1999'ish! > > I hadn't realized you had the Cat5 in place. If that is fine for what > you need, just mark the Cat3 jacks as "do not use". You'll be better > off buying VOIP phones that have 4-port switches built in than > constantly debugging old Cat3 IMHO. > > Tom > Agreed! All (major?) VOIP vendors that I know of have at least an in and an out on their phone, so you can't lose a port by hooking up your phone. We have all of our desktop PCs plugged into the voip phone which is then plugged into the wall.
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