Cabling: The Complete Guide to Network Wiring

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Summary: Informative and useful! Best book I've purchased this year!
Review: As A consultant/designer for telecommunications infrastructure I am always on the lookout for the latest and greatest book with reference to network cabling. Cabling: The complete guide to network wiring, will be a great addition to my library of reference books.

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Summary: Cabling: The complete guide to network wiring
Review: As A consultant/designer for telecommunications infrastructure I am always on the lookout for the latest and greatest book with reference to network cabling. Cabling: The complete guide to network wiring, will be a great addition to my library of reference books.

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Summary: Cabling: The Complete Guide to Network Wiring
Review: Execellent all-around text. Good reference. Would like to see more pictures.

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Summary: Thorough guide on cabling
Review: This book contains hundreds of illustrations and photos as well as detailed instructions on how to wire all kinds of networks. This is an excellent source of information on what kind of cable to buy, the tools you will need, and what pitfalls to avoid on many cabling jobs. This book is a complete source of information, which is laid out in an easy-to-read manner. With this book and a few tools, you should have no difficulty completing your cabling work.

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Summary: Thorough guide on cabling
Review: This book contains hundreds of illustrations and photos as well as detailed instructions on how to wire all kinds of networks. This is an excellent source of information on what kind of cable to buy, the tools you will need, and what pitfalls to avoid on many cabling jobs. This book is a complete source of information, which is laid out in an easy-to-read manner. With this book and a few tools, you should have no difficulty completing your cabling work.

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Summary: Tips, information, and guidelines for pro network wiring
Review: This book covers cabling and termination for pretty much every networking medium, from Token Ring and 10base-2 to fiber, and everything in-between. There are plenty of diagrams and photographs (want to know what a 110 block looks like and how to use one?) and frequently asked questions (such as, can a 6-position plug be used with an 8-position modular jack?). Also covered are safety issues and other considerations (how to safely wire cabling through building firewalls; electrical and communications outlets must not be located in the same stud cavity without a physical barrier between the two).

Before I bought this book, the main source of my knowledge about cabling was the Internet. A few minutes of reading this book could have saved me literally hours of research on the Internet.

Sadly, the scope of this book does not include strategies for retro-wiring residences (or businesses, for that matter); it only covers the tools I might need and some basic tips on how to use them. For example, I'd like to know what's the best way to install and use in-wall conduit after the drywall has gone up? How would I fish cable up through a wall on the far (narrow) side of a vaulted ceiling?

Overall, the book contains a lot of very useful information for everyone from the novice to someone who just needs to brush up on the latest technologies.

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Summary: Informative and useful! Best book I've purchased this year!
Review: This has been the most useful book I have read all year! This is my best book purchase of the year! I'm a system administrator and I have been given the task of planning the move of my company's local area network to a new location. I had seen cabling installed before and thought I knew something about it. I contacted a few contractors and they threw at me an mess of technical terms about cabling. One of them recommended this book. In the first two chapters, I learned most everything I needed to propertly plan my cabling system; the other chapters gave me many ideas. This book immediately helped to save me tens of thousands of dollars and gave me the information necessary to plan a proper cabling infrastructure. I can't say enough good things about it!

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Summary: This is the absolute bible on cabling for "Any " installer.
Review: This is without any doubts the best book on the market about cabling or telecommunications wiring.If you are a would-be installer,this book will give all the basics required for a well rounded view on equipment and cable installation.you will learn how to read the markings on the cable;how cable is rated(flamability,transmission properties,cable construction)and the standards of installation(national electric code,Eia/Tia-568);how to choose the right cables,connectors, and equipment to fit the application(end result).Then, there is a 32 page insert of colour photographs illustrating how to do the actual installations.This book is a general guide,thereby,here are some recommendations for anyone wanting to go into technical details:(1)Communications Cabling(2)Optical fiber installation by E.Pearson,(3)Basic Electricity by -Nooger/Neville,Inc(vol 1-2)

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Summary: not the one
Review: Warns not to exceed maximum bend radius (sic). Visits the same material in multiple sections. Clyde Herrick's book on Telecommunications Wiring is a little closer to being useful, but really, Charles E. Spurgeon's Ethernet: the Definitive Guide has both the installation and configuration information you need.