On 27/06/2012 08:27, Paul D Smith wrote:


For you or someone else?

Oh gawd, that's my beef....

Someone related to a friend of my mum heard about me skills in IT and
installation whatnot, and had heard about this distributed network, TV
and telephone malarky. He was gutting and almost rebuilding his house, a
geeky friend of his had done this kind of thing, so this fellow though
it would be a must to have it done as well.

I got an emergency call a couple of days before the plasterboard was
going up, would I help him thread through some cables? He hadn't a clue
what was going where, so I concocted a plan and flood wired the place
with 2 pairs of CAT5e and 4 lots of CT100 to each room. At the patch
panel he could decide what was going to be phone and what ethernet.

And then the daft questions started.... he really had no clue what he
was meant to do with it. Distributed media, VOIP, security, Satellite
TV, multi-switches, servers, routers etc. Whoosh.... The labeled patch
panel he found particulary confusing. In and out. Phone or LAN, Whoosh......

I pointed him (a youngish engineer type) at a few websites and left him
to it. Perhaps his geeky friend will aid him in a bit of spoon feeding.

I've done me bit. A system like that I would really enjoy learning,
tweaking, and configuring. With him, hopeless - he wants callout... :-(

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Adrian C