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On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 09:11:06AM +0200, wouter van ooijen wrote:
> > > I dunno what you pay for wire, but at 50 feet (== 15 
> > meters?) I would 
> > > consider using 3 wires. Or rather 4 (two UTP pairs). I pay 
> > E 0.22 for 
> > > UTP cable (@ 400m), split in two (imagine your students with x-acto
> > > knifes..) that would cost E 1.65 for 15 meters.
> > 
> > Definetely too much. Wire costs, buying 1000ft spools from 
> > digikey, will work out to be over half the cost of the 
> > project ($2.50/50ft) just for pairs, let alone duel pairs.
> 
> Maybe your wire is nicer, but as I said can get UTP for E 3.3/50 ft == 4
> pairs. I think you should be able to get a similar price on your side of
> the water.

Interesting, yeah, that's a good deal cheaper that was I was pricing
out.

Turns out spools of Cat-5e can be gotten for as little as $55 each from
sewelldirect.com, which ends up as $0.69 for 50ft! (2pairs) That's even
half again as the price you quoted, and nearly a fifth of what I was
assuming.


Er, don't get all your prices from digikey is my lesson for today...

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