Network Cabling Handbook

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Summary: I Find this text excellent for those new to network cabling.
Review: I am a Licenced Journeyman Electrcian an am expanding my skill set to encompass network cabling and eventually become an RCDD. I am curretly taking an inensive 5 day course instructed by Mr. Clark himself and this book is the text for the class. I find the book to be clear , easily read and understood to the novice, yet I would venture to say that any cabling professional of any level would find this book a useful reference in thier work! I find the content complete and well written with many diagrams and photos to help with visualization. I highly recommend this book!

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Summary: I would suggest NOT buying
Review: Network Cabling Handbook by Chris Clark, this is my opinion: The book does a poor job bringing clarity to the concepts the reader is supposed to be learning. Also, the book has NUMEROUS errors in it. Technical errors/wrong information, spelling errors, switched/incorrect charts and pictures, etc. Example: on page 78 Fig. 3-8. This figure trys to show a TIA/EIA T568B modular outlet configuration, but is is actually T568A. This is just one example of the numerous errors and misinformation I found, and I'm only on Chapter 3! A book with this many errors should have it's own eratta page on the publisher's website. It is a shame that this book is still the primary text used for some beginning Telecommunication and Networking courses.