[nylug-talk] OT: cat6 costs - getting gypped?

[mylar]

On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 12:40, Ward Griffiths wrote:
> On 04/25/2006 12:15 am, Jim McBride wrote:
> > Agreed that plenum cable may not be needed in all cases. Am getting
> > conflicting opinions as to whether or not it is required in dropped
> > ceilings.
> 
> I used plenum cable here in the house even though I was dragging wire through 
> the old gas pipes that lit this house when it was built in the 1880s. 

Yeah, but you never know... You may want to use those gas pipes for
lighting again someday... Not good if they are clogged with cables.  :)


>  (And 
> dragging new AC wire to replace the cloth-wrapped stuff that'd been installed 
> as a retrofit sometime later {about WWI} through those pipes).

That cloth wrapped wire is the "modern stuff". A friend of mine has a
old place  upstate and it's still wired with the old "knob and tube"
wiring.

mylar