[mythtv-users] HDMI-to-CAT5 Converter

[Brian Wood]

Marc Sherman wrote:
> Jason Sullivan wrote:
>> On Feb 5, 2008 12:29 PM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
>>> Not just homes either. I was out at our local community college the
>>> other day and saw some workers furiously pulling cat5 cable through the
>>> suspended ceiling. I looked at the cable, and casually mentioned to one
>>> of the guys that it didn't look like plenum-rated cable to me. He looked
>>> at it for a minute and said "awww crap", and started pulling it back out.
>> And, unfortunately, that usually translates to "awww crap, someone
>> noticed." rather than "awww crap, we got the wrong stuff."
> 
> And the fact that they didn't seem to care about the furious pulling,
> either... that's pretty much a write-off for 100-base-T...

Yeah, looked to me as if they had got the soccer team to do some work on 
the side :-)

But it's one thing to be ignorant, that's curable. The real problem is 
that the guy I spoke to seemed to be aware of what plenum cable was, and 
  was pulling the wrong stuff in anyway, that's not right.

Of course the guy might be afraid of getting fired if he brought the 
matter up to his boss, and he may have been right about that.

Ad they wonder what's wrong with American industry...

beww