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Originally posted by skip555:
I recently had a "frugal " customer building a new building , all drops in conduit in the slab and they where looking to run 1/2" conduit because the architect said that one cat5e cable could be used both voice and data

I wanted 1" for future but got 3/4 for separate cables

false economy in my opinion
Absolutely... i would never do this in a new install .... but in an existing building that is tough to run cable i don't have a problem explaining to the customer that this isn't the correct way to do it but it may very well work just fine for them and if they are ok with it we'll give it a shot.

I can't imagine an architect making that call ..... usually they put twice as many drops as needed!

John Corrigan
New Phone Systems and Service
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