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Just wandering what everyone is charging for Multi jack locations. And also I've only been installing cat5e vs cat5/cat3 because of the price difference is minimal. Should voice and data be relatively the same rate.
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full charge for 1sr run, multiple runs to same location 1/2 off....

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I charge 55 for the first jack 45 for the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th and 35 for all others. This is the cost for voice only. Data 70 for the first 60 for all others. Is this overcharging? Also does the price go up for mutiple wire installs? Say 4 single lines and a fax.

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I charge $90 for each CAT5e drop, no matter if voice or data.

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so then do you terminate as data or usoc, or is this determined by the application?

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You would be well served to set a 'per cable' rate. Figure your standard rates on a 100' total run. Any longer runs get an up charge.

In today's market and at this point in the technology curve... never pull CAT3... Pull a minimum of CAT-5e everywhere, unless specs call for CAT-6 or above. The cost is not that much differnet anymore between CAT3 and CAT5e and you are future proofing your install.

Terminate everything in a commercial location on 568-B standards... this still gives you the line 1 and line 2 compatibility with USOC.

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Negetive. 568A will give you USOC 2 line compatability. 568B you would have to put the 2 line on the green pair. Patch panels are totally inefficient for voice 1 pair cabling. 110 or my preference 66 blocks utilize voice cable WAY more efficiently. Cat5e will cut you voice loop limit down considerably on long runs. While small jobs are great for all patch panels...large jobs it's totally ineffective and tail chasing every time you need to add a voice jack in a location.

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You coulnt have said it better about patch panels for use with voice Coral Tech

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Why future proof yourself out of future work at a greater expense today? Doesn't make business sense to me. Even if it's only 3 or 4 cents a foot.

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I wouldn't even call it future proofing. I am guessing that they only cable relatively small systems and spaces. In my larger 700+ phone systems it would be a wiring nightmare if it was all on patch panels. I mean, what good would it do to have IDF's all over and convert them to patch panels? The wiring closets would be like HUGE and VERY ineffecient. I have convinced MIS directors by simply explaining the cross connect is simply the telecom equivilent to the patch cord.

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