Cheepest place to get a 305m box of UTP cable?

I've decided that the geek in me is going to put network cable through the
house, as I only rent I'm not going to put wall sockets in, just the cable
into each room with an RJ45 plug discretely located in a corner, which I can
extend with a female to female as needed.

Where is the best (read cheapest) online place to get a 305m box of UTP
cable (I guess this will be solid, unless stranded is cheap enough), a
decent ratchet crimp tool, and some RJ45 plugs? A tester may come in handy
too.

Any recommendations gratefully appreciated.


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www.valiantltd.demon.co.uk do crimps for £20

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"Nathan Higgins" <(E-Mail Removed)-spam> wrote in message
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> Not sure if this is cheap..
>
> http://www.universal-cables.co.uk/un...bulk-cable.htm

that's about 2.5X the amount I've found so far!



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"Nathan Higgins" <(E-Mail Removed)-spam> wrote in message
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> www.valiantltd.demon.co.uk do crimps for £20

when I looked it said £25, and doesn;t specify that they are ratchet, so
they are probably the cheap pants ones, thanks for the link though!



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In article <3f197a94$0$18494$(E-Mail Removed)>, "Matt
Horn" <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:

> Where is the best (read cheapest) online place to get a 305m box of UTP
> cable (I guess this will be solid, unless stranded is cheap enough), a
> decent ratchet crimp tool, and some RJ45 plugs? A tester may come in handy
> too.

You could try the B&Q online store at www.diy.com - do a quick search
on "network". Half the price of the Universal Cable one, and if you
wanted to do less than 305m of cabling, there's 50m and 100m available
too.

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"Andrew Gabriel" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> It is more correct to fit sockets on the ends of the cable and then
> use made-up patch cords. Then you don't need an RJ45 crimp tool.
> You need a punch-down tool for the RJ45 socket terminations -- get
> a good quality Krone one. I've had mine for years, but I don't think
> they are anywhere near as expensive as good RJ45 crimp tools.


thanks for the info.. I believe it is also against the guidelines to use end
to end connectors like I plan to do, but hey my whole office runs fine with
them on pretty much every desk so I dont think it's a real problem so to
speak of. The only reason i'm not doing sockets is cus it's a rented house
and I dont really want to screw stuff to the wall.

Thanks again



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