AHL: Stop Letting Your Hands Argue With Your Brain

We share major schedule changes, quick industry updates, and a rapid-fire Q&A that gets honest about what it really takes to pass BICSI exams. We break down what to study first, how the hands-on portion works, and the cabling fundamentals that separate confident techs from guesswork. 
• podcast and livestream schedule flip starting October 1 
• acronym challenge and what JCAHO stands for 
• industry notes on BICSI hiring and upcoming manual updates 
• how to prioritize Technician exam study by percentage and impact 
• building a realistic study plan and putting concepts into field context 
• hands-on exam structure, retest rules, and how to practice under time 
• choosing Installer 2 Copper, Installer 2 Fiber, or Technician based on scope 
• why splicing is over-feared and what SOL-2 Fiber really tests 
• RCDD eligibility options and what counts as design experience 
• study hours reality check and why experience can work against you 
• what to expect on RCDD test day and how to prepare your brain 
• twist rates, crosstalk, shielding types, and what cable markings mean 
• category bandwidth, encoding basics, and distance limits in real installs 
Reach out to Bixie, apply. If you do, make sure that you tell them Chuck sent you. 
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Schedule Changes And Announcements

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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Wednesday night live after hours with your favorite RTD Chuck Bowser. First thing gotta get out of the gate. There are some changes are brewing with the podcast. Some changes are brewing. You probably just finally got used to the schedule. Podcast episodes come out on Monday. Live streams on Wednesday. Well, guess what? Starting October 1st, we're flipping them. So it'll be live stream on Monday nights. Podcast episodes on Wednesday night. So make sure you make a good note of that, okay? A good note of that. Um, before we get going on too much further, what are you drinking? Tell us in the chat box. What are you drinking? Hmm. I'm drinking water. This chuck's not allowed to have any sugar. So I'm just drinking water tonight. I'm not even drinking Xevia soda. Ah, there you go. Here's my acronym challenge. Acronym challenge. Anthony's in the house. How you doing, my buddy? Uh JCAHO. The acronym is JCAHO. And to be honest with you, I don't know if I would have gotten this one if it wouldn't be sitting right here in front of me. JCAHO. What does that mean? I'll give you a few seconds to here. I'll give you a few seconds to put that in the uh in the chat box if you can answer that. Uh let me see. We got some people answering here in the chat box here. Let's go and fire up that chat so we can see them there. There we go. There we go. All right, so somebody's drinking from a fire hose. All right, there we go. There we go. So JCAHO. Wise components in the house, Mr. Tony. How are you doing, my friend? All right, so JCHO, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. As I said, I probably couldn't have gotten that one myself. I probably couldn't have. Just being honest with you guys. Okay, news for the industry. I was gonna say it again. Bixie's hiring two training delivery specialists. So if you think you can train, if you think you can make an impact, reach out to Bixie, apply. One of them is gonna be a local position in Tampa, too, by the way. So make sure that you reach out to them. And if you do, make sure that you tell them Chuck sent you. Another thing, the It's them 9th edition. It's a ninth edition. I got bugs in my ear telling me it's coming pretty soon. Hopefully by the winter conference. So the new Itzum's hopefully will be coming up by the winter conference. I'll let you know if I get if I get confirmation of that fact. And it's going to be two, two. Keith Johnson's a great trainer, by the way. Two books now. The Ipsum's going to be two of them. Two books. And because they're updating the ITSM manual, that also means they're going to be updating the pocket field guides as well. In the podcast this week, I already told you the news. Starting October 1st, we're flipping. We're going to be the live streams Monday nights podcast on Wednesday nights from now on. Another thing, did you catch Monday's episode? I'm getting a lot of great feedback. Mike Pinaki, if you took the Fluke certification course, the C C C I T T M O U S E, right? He he teaches that class for Fluke. He came on and we talked about fluke test results. Well, cable test results using a fluke tester. Great show. Talked about, you know, um, some things like, well, if it gets above 30%, uh, if crosstalk gets above 30%, it's less than 50 feet, it's this. If it's above 30%, it's over 50 feet, then it's that. Um so all that kind of cool stuff. All that kind of cool stuff. And the best part is that's only part one of a three-part episode. Yeah. 107 meters. That's a little more than I need there, my friend. Uh, I only need about 250 feet. Um, but you know, hey, you let me know. Uh we get to so we're doing we're doing part two and part three. So there's three part series with Mike Panaki. Mike Panaki. Also, don't forget, Thanksgiving's coming up October 23rd to the 25th. I will be there on Saturday, October 24th. I also just found out Bob Hurtling. CS, send it to me. Send it to me. Bob Hurtling will be there as well, too. So you're gonna have, I hate calling myself an expert. Um, you're gonna have two subject matter experts, and one of them, Bob Hurtling, is way smarter than me. He's gonna be, he's the said subject matter expert in charge. He's the guy who helps revise and update the TD Mem. He's gonna be there. It's a great way to hang out with us. And also, um, you know, the thing is, you know, this live stream is free. We do this and you know, Wednesday nights, and in October, we're just gonna flip over to Monday nights. But um, Bob actually did write the book or parts of the book. So I do these live streams where I answer questions, but most of the questions are submitted to me in advance because I get lots of questions, so I kind of filter them. But if you join the LTC crew, and you can do that by clicking on that little QR code up there, join the LTC crew. We meet once a month on a Zoom call. So you give me for an hour, and it's a lot, you know, you questions right then there. We just did the inaugural one last night. Bob Hurtling was on it, Shotzi was on it. We talked about uh what happened at Bixie 2026 in uh Bixie Beyond 2026. We talked about what happened to all the standards groups, because Bob runs most of those. And then we also talked about Holocore Fiber, multi-core fiber, uh, all kinds of stuff, cool stuff coming down the pipe. If you are a if you're already a Patreon member, a little TC crew member, and you're paying already, those are recorded and you can go back and watch them. So make sure that you watch that. All right. So let's go to the

What To Study For Technician

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first question. And this comes from Jason. Came to me on Facebook. He says, Chuck, I'm getting ready for my Bixby Technician exam. There's a lot in that instant manual. Yes, there is. Uh why what should I spend my time studying? I got some tips for you. I got some tips for you, Jason. Number one, start with field planning and implementation and design. Field planning, implementation, and design. That represents about 20% of the technician exam. Now that's going to include things like, you know, doing surveys, reading blueprints, job planning, uh, my favorite labeling, like labeling, material inventory, even safety, and closeout documentation. One of the things that our industry is really, really weak at. You want to double your chances, go spend some time in the pathways and spaces sections. That represents about another 20%. So just between those two, that's 40% of the exam. Okay? 40% of the exam. Pathway and space, a lot of people ignore it. Um, and then also don't forget proper installation for copper and fiber, obviously, right? Um, and pulling cables. That's about 10, 12% of that exam. But remember that the test, the the technician test, the exam, it's it's more than memorization. Okay, that if you get if you sit in my RCD study groups, you hear me say this. Yes, I run RCD study groups, but I'm not doing it for you to memorize the book to pass the exam. I'm doing it so you become a great RCDD. See you later, K man. A great RCDD. In fact, I just got a I got an email today that one of my students passed their RCDD test. Yay! Ah, that was I was actually so happy with that. Um, that makes my day. It just truly, truly does. So here are four tips for you. Um, you know, build a study plan. That's kind of what my study group is based on. Build a study plan um around you know, uh those percentages I just gave you. And don't forget, read the insome cover to cover, but spend that extra time as you're reading through the documents and think, how can I use this in the field? Okay, how can I use this in the field? When you start doing that, those applications, you know, it really kind of reinforces the memorization. Memorization is hard. It's really, really hard. Now, you know, the biggest recommendation for passing the technician exam is 50 to 100 hours of independent study of the ISM, right? Now, for some people it's gonna be 50. Some people it's gonna be 100. People like me, it's probably gonna be closer to 200 because I'm a little bit thick-headed, right? Um, but you gotta go through. This is not a this is this is not a weekend cram territory kind of thing. You really gotta you gotta carve out literally like a week or two to really study this, make sure that you got it down right.

Hands-On Exam Rules And Focus

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Question number two, this comes from cable guy 87. He goes, How bad is the hands-on exam? What what Bruno can't talk? How bad is the hands-on exam and what happens if I mess up one of those tasks? That's a great question. You know, a lot of it kind of depends on the proctor, but there are some guidelines that that Bixie goes by. But for the technician exam, you're gonna have to complete 12 tasks within a 20-minute for a total. 20 limit per task. It shouldn't take you 20 minutes. And I remember when I was a Bixie instructor, I didn't have a clock on every student, but I kind of paid attention to how long it took. If I thought you were on one station way too long, more than 20 minutes, I'd I'd fail you. But so you got those 12 tasks. If you fail one of those tasks, you can retest that task on the same day at no additional charge, provided the instructor has some time. Okay. If you fail the same task twice, or you fail a total of two hands-on tasks, you've got to retake the hands-on examination at another date. Okay. I'm sorry, that's just the way the rules are written. Um, when the written exam comes later, you must you know successfully pass that as well, too. You know, a lot of times they're doing Pearson View for that. Um and they're pretty strict, the Pearson View people. You know, they they have a camera, you gotta show everywhere. I wouldn't want to show everybody at my desk right now because it is just a mess. A mess. Right? So keep practicing this physical task until you know what to do before your brain starts arguing with your hands. Follow, they'll give you a piece of paper and it'll say terminate a 66 block. Go from, you know, um port, you know, from pair one to cross-connect to this. Follow those step-by-step, step-by-step instructions. Don't think into it. You're gonna drive yourself crazy. And then practice under a timer. So if you've got a you know a family member, a wife, a spouse, a child, a friend, have them time you because things get different when you're timing them. It just happens. Now it's gonna feel like it's 37 seconds, but you know, with somebody standing there with a clipboard watching you, it's gonna go pretty stinging quick. I watched a really good video with uh Chuck Nice and Neil deGrasse Tyson, Neil deGrasse Tyson on why does time seem to slow down when when you're uh when you're under stress. Great video, by the way. Um so don't, you know, don't rush that first minute. Make sure you clearly understand the task. Read all the way through the task before you start grabbing tools. I I remember I was in college one time, and uh the teacher was giving us a, he gave us a handout for instructions, and it was literally like two pages, right? Two pages, and then we went home and we did it, and we came back the next day. Several of the people didn't turn into anything because the very last sentence on the lat on the second page said, if you read this far, you don't have to do the task. Oops. So read it all the way through. Okay, read it all the way through. And here's the thing, here's the here's here's the here's the thing, it catches people. Well, Chuck, I can terminate a circuit-to-search block. Chuck, I can terminate a 110 block. Well, you trained right. Do you do you trade do you terminate it the way that Bixie says it do? Because this is this is not a test on how you were trained. This is how it's supposed to be expected to be done by Bixie guidelines, right? So there you go. It isn't automatically the same. For example, example, if you're thinking about taking a hands-on test for any of the installer copper, installer fiber technician, learn the two-finger loop. That's my tip. Learn the two-finger loop. The RCD domain shows the design ICT solutions is 63% of the exam, but it's mainly like chapter 21. That's well, so right now you're talking about the RCD exam. Right now I'm talking about the Big C tech exam, but I've heard a lot of people say that there's a good significant portion of the RCD test in that in that project management, project administration chapter, though. I've heard that. Okay. Question number three. This comes from Maria. She says, I've been fooling around with low voltage work for years. Should I go after the installer two copper or the installer two fiber, or just jump right straight to technician? Technician. All right, so here's the difference. Yeah, installer two, that focuses obviously on copper, structured cable systems, installation, pathways, pooling tensions, 25 pounds, band radiuses, troubleshooting, documentation, bonding, grounding, and fire slapping. All the stuff that you know a good copper tech is going to have to do. Installer 2 fiber, okay, installer 2 fiber, that's gonna focus on installation of fiber optic cabling, termination, splicing, troubleshooting, using an OTDR, using a VFL, and those kinds of skills. The technician gets broader and deeper because the tech is somebody who's working with complex systems and he's he's gonna be highly diagnostic testing. They're copper amphibious. They need to know both. And the technician eligibility has more than one pathway to qualify for it. But you can do it through qualifying continued education or some credentials. But here's the thing: don't just taste the letters. I say this all the time. I just said just a few minutes ago. Don't chase the RCDD just because you want to become an RCDD. Okay. Do it because you want to make an impact in the industry. You want to make an impact in your career. Question number four fiber nerd. I'm taking SOL-2 fiber. What? What should I focus on besides splicing? Everybody keeps telling me the exam is basically a fiber splicing test. Again, that's a misconception for the for the uh ITSM test, for the technician test, because again, pathways and spaces for the uh for the for the fiber level, it's 28% of that test. Field planning, 15%. Pulling fiber, 14%. Termination, 14%. Splicing only represents 5% of that exam. Now, again, the reason I think people think that splicing represents more is because they get nervous with it and they think they're gonna mess it. So, but just you know, a good way to make sure that you understand what's going on is do you understand what's a tier one test? Do you understand what's a tier two test? Why are they different? How are they different? Which one's more accurate than the other? Because when it comes to fiber termination, fiber testing, fiber splicing, you don't want to be a one-trick pony. You want to be able to do multiple things. That's where the money is. You know, the person that owns can fusion splice on a on a fiber fox 6A fiber splicer is not going to be as good as somebody who can who can do an MS Squared copper splice and fusion splice and run the project. Just saying, just saying. Use the blueprint as your roadmap. There's a good tip for you. Question number five. This comes from Marcus.

Qualifying And Studying For RCDD

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He says, I've been in the ICT industry for six years. Most installation and project management. I don't have five years specifically doing design. Can I still qualify for the RCD exam? Yes, you can. There are a couple options for you. There's three eligibility options. Right. The second one is to have a current Bixie credential, like a Bixie Tech, RTPM, DC DC, or OSP, and two years of design experience. Another avenue is to have two years of design experience with two years of higher education, like STEM school or community college or something like that. The third option, the way that I did it, five years, right? And the Bix City book gives you lots of great information on that. Just a lot of people get stuck with that five years. And a lot of people don't realize what they mean by design experience. I've had people ask me, well, Chuck, I've been a project manager for five years. I'm not an estimator, I'm not a designer. And then I usually ask them, have you ever come up with a bill of materials, a schedule, or you know, a Gantt chart to help an estimator? If the answer is yes, you've done it. You've done it. How many times does an estimator send a project manager or a project foreman out in the field to go look at the site to come back with information so the estimator can estimate the project? Okay? So there's lots of ways that you can qualify for that. But the only part, the only people who have the true valid, the true stamp on that, yes or no, is going to be Bixfe, not Chuck. Jennifer from Facebook, there's so much material to the TDM. Should I study every subject equally for the RCDD? Okay, now again, are you trying to just pass the test or are you trying to become a great RCDD? That's my first question to you. If you just want to pass the test, okay, just go to look up the look up the uh RCD study handbook V.15, examine that blueprint. It's gonna tell you exactly what portions represent on that test. For example, the ICT solutions, design solutions, 63% of the exam. That is by far the largest area. Okay. Installation is gonna be 16%, bid and tender process 11%, defining script work 10%. So that's why a lot of people feel there's a lot of project manual stuff in it because a lot of that stuff kind of ties in with project management, but still kind of goes back to the design. Now, again, make your blueprint like I do with the study groups, come up with one you want to take that test, divide this number of days into that test to figure out how long it's gonna take you to read through the book. If you fall into the trap of only studying the 63%, right? The 63%, because that's what they said that the that the uh the design ICT solution represents, 63% is not gonna make you pass that test. Okay, and it's definitely not gonna make you a good project manager. It's just not. I'm sorry. I hate to be the bird of bad news. Okay, you need to understand principles of transmission. You need to understand why, where, how those electrons travel, those photons travel, all that stuff. You know, sinusoidal wave. If you don't understand the sinusota wave, I can't explain to you the difference between 100 megahertz and 500 megahertz.

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YouTube, from future RCDD. How many hours should I realistically study for the RCD? I've been doing this for 15 years, so I'm hoping I don't need hundreds of hours. So a couple things here, right? If you go by the Bixie suggestions, they say at least 125 hours of studying. But it really kind of depends on what kind of student you were. My sister, she could read something and just, it was committed to memory. That's just the way she is. Me, I gotta read it three times, four times. If it doesn't make sense, I gotta set it down and then go read it again. So, yeah, it really kind of depends on what kind of person you are, you know, as far as how many hours you're gonna spend. I know I know some people that can that read just literally read through the book the the weekend before they took the exam and passed. I know other people who've been studying for two years, three years. Here's the problem you're gonna run into with 15 years of experience. I guarantee you, as you go through the TDM, you're gonna find things that you're gonna look at and say, that's not the way I do this. If you want to pass the test, you gotta be able to do it the way the TD Mem says to do it. Because if you don't, you will not pass the test. Just won't. It's just not gonna happen. Okay. Question number eight. This comes from cable design guy. Chuck, what is the RCD exam actually like on test day? Is it 100? Is it just 100 multiple choice questions? So the RCD version 15 exam, according to the the study handbook, because like I said, I've got my RCD, but I got it on version 8. So I have not taken the test on version 15. But according to the RCD study handbook, me.15, it says the exam has 100 scored questions and you got to answer them within two and a half hours. Okay. This is not, this isn't just a traditional multiple choice. The book says you got to do multiple choice responses and enhanced matching question types. So be prepared to think outside the box. Okay, it's going to happen. And uh there's no schedule breaks. So make sure you go to the bathroom beforehand. Don't drink 14 cups of coffee before you get to Pearson View Center to take that test. Okay. So and I also suggest when you're studying for your test, that you don't study the night before you take the test. Let your brain rest. Okay? Let your brain rest. That's gonna be the best thing there. So yeah, the RCD, it is a design examiner. It is a design exam. Let's get that right. And again, as uh who said I think it was Valid said, 63% of the book is designed ICT solutions, right? But again, if you were taught incorrectly, you're gonna struggle with that. I did, because I I was battling 20 years of experience on doing it wrong. So I had to overcome those. A good RCD is gonna think, what does the client need? What does the codes and standards say? How should I design this? And what other building systems are gonna be affected by my cable plan? How do I document this project? How do I verify that it's finished and it meets the design attempt, right? So there you go. Question number nine.

Cabling Basics That Decide Pass Fail

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This comes from I did not capture the person's name. Oops. Sorry about that. Um you know who you are. He and uh why do you have four pairs inside a UTP cable had different twist rates, and why does it matter when I terminate cabling? So great question. So this person must be relatively new. So each pair is manufactured with a different pair lay or a different twist rate. And that's so no two pairs within the same within the same cable have the same twist length. So when you test a 100-foot cable, 150-foot cable, it's not unusual, it's not unusual to find a uh um, you might have a um, oh my mind just pulled a blank on me. Oh, one pair might be 150, another pair might be 151, the other might be 152, the other might not be, it might be 153, because it's the number of twists. Just remember, those twisting of the conductors help reduce the effects of EMI, electromagnetic interference, and they also reduce the effects of capacitance. Again, another reason why you should read the principles of transmission if you're studying the RC. Because what is capacitance? There you go. Right. Different twist rates help that cable eliminate crosstalk. Crosstalk is just how much one pair interferes with another pair inside the cable, or how much one cable interferes with another cable. Right? So the key here is just understand that they're going to be twisted rates at different rates. The key is don't untwist more than a half of an inch of the pairs when you go to terminate it. Now that's don't untwist the pairs. Now it's not jacket removal, that's something different. A lot of people confuse those two. But if you keep the jacket removed to less than a half of an inch, there's no way in the world that you untwist it more than a half of an inch. So that's why I don't argue people when they when they when they start saying, oh, you're only supposed to trip off a half inch of the jacket. That's not true. Not true. Question number 10. This comes from Robert on Clapper. He says, Chuck, I'm starting to pay attention to labels on the cable. I'm new to the field. I understand what CMP and CMR mean, but what does U slash UTP mean? I'm gonna lay this out for you. So U slash UTP, the letter in front of the slash tells you if there's an overall full shield or not. So in the U slash UTP, there's no overall full shield. The letters after the shield, the UTP, means the four pairs inside the cable do not have foil shield. So there's no no there's no full shielding to that U slash UTP cable. There's about six, seven others. Let's see if I can do these off the top of my head. F slash FTP. So the F stands for foil or screen or um or full screen twisted pair. So you got a full pair on the outside, and then the four pairs inside also have full pairs, full twisting around them as well. F slash UTP, there's an overall full shield, but once you get past that, there's no additional shielding on those pairs. S slash UTP, there's a screen shield around the overall conductor. But once you get past that, then each of those four pairs also I don't mean S UTP. Um the four pairs do not have shields. S F slash FTP, now you got a braided screen foil with each of the pairs having a full twist around them, full screen around them. Okay. But those are the most common ones that you'll come across. And then you kind of tell it's describing the cable for you. Question number 11. This comes from Derek on Facebook. Chuck, what's the difference between a traditional shielded cable and a cable that uses a non-conductive isolation wrap? Don't they just basically do the same thing? Kind of. Kind of. They're both intended to reduce the effects of EMI, crosstalk, alien crosstalk, um, you know, and from fluorescent light sources and electric. They're both designed to do that. A traditional screen cable, that full shield is continuous from one end of the cable to the other end of the cable. You can literally test continuity through it. Okay? The non-conductive isolation wrap is typically a polymer-based, kind of like insulated tape that's thin, but it's got brakes in it about every three feet or so. So you will not get continuity all the way through it. So it gives you almost the same benefits of a shielded cable without having to use a shielded jack, without having to put your tester on a shielded test result. And that saves money and you don't have to bind it to the ground. So just remember that. And there's one of the ways, here's a trip for you, uh tip for you. One of the ways that you can tell if a cable is a shielded cable or a discontinuous isolation ramp. Does it have a drain wire? If it has a drain wire, it is a shielded cable. If it does not have a drain wire, it is not a shielded cable. Question number 12. Alright, and this is uh from Clapper too. I forgot they meant to capture the person's name. In simple terms, Chuck, what's the difference between Cat 5E, Cat 6, Cat 6A, Cat A? What is really changing? Now, the easiest way to think about the category grain cabling, now, by the way, there's category 3, there's category 4, there's cat 7 and cat 7a. Cat 3 and cat 4 are legacy cables, not supposed to be using them anymore. Cat 5 is actually one of them too. Cat 5 is the minimum cable for all new installs moving forward, though Cat 6 is the recommended. If you're doing data centers, cat 6 is the recommended, I mean Cat 6 is the required, cat 6A is the recommended. So as the category rating goes up, the net cable is designed to higher, handle higher frequencies. So cat 5e, 100 megahertz, cat 6, 250 megahertz, cat 6a, 500 megahertz, cat 8, 2 gig. So you've got a lot more frequent. So the higher the number, the more frequencies. Okay. Now think of it this way. You know, a megahertz is just literally 1 million cycles in a second. Because you got a sine wave, right? Sine wave that starts at the zero point, goes up to a tighest point, comes back down to that middle point, comes to the bottom, lowest point, comes back up. That's one cycle. You have a million of those in one second. A million of those in one second. So if you have a 100 megahertz cable, think of it this way: that's only 100 lanes in a highway. The Cat 6A is a 500 megahertz cable. It has 500 lanes in a highway. So it can handle more traffic. More traffic. But that's only part of the question and part of the answer because you also got to talk about encoding. There's different types of encoding. Manchester encoding, return to zero, non-return to zero. Um a lot of people tell you, well, the way that works is you know, it's on, it's off, it's on, it's off, it's on, it's off. That's not technically true. With different encoding types, it can it can make this, it can measure discrete levels of the voltage, whether it's rising or falling, and it can put a one or zero on that. So think of it this way: megahertz is the width of the highway. Encoding is how efficiently you can put your load in those cars. Right? So is it a is it a two-seat smart car or is it a uh school bus with, you know, an 18-wind of school bus with 40 seats in it because they both are gonna go down the highway, but the bus, because its encoding is a little more advanced, instead of just doing the waiting for complete cycles, measuring the discrete levels, you get a lot more information on it. The better cable, the better the highway, the better encoding schemes, it's gonna let you move on. Now, I also get asked too quite often, what's the maximum data rates for cabling? Just remember this when it comes to data rates and copper-based cabling. The more bandwidth, the shorter the cable has to be. Unless you change the physical characteristics of the actual cable itself. All right, and so what do I mean by that? So if you go by, if you want to be you want to be set up for 99% of the time, then what you want to do is you want to make sure that um for for cat 5e, one gig. One gig is your maximum limit. Cat 6, 2.5 gig. Cat 6.8, 10 gig, cat 8, 40 gig, all the way out to that 90 meters or 295 feet or 100 meters or 328 feet for the channel. That's gonna that's gonna get you through 90% of the stuff that you're gonna be dealing with. If you're not worrying about the standards, you can put more bandwidth on those other cables. For example, Cat 6 can do 10 gig to about 50 meters, 55 meters. Okay, you just can't do it the full 90 meters. Chuck Wilson. Chuck, I have to call you back, buddy. I'm sorry, I didn't move a live stream. Um, I was talking to Mike Pinocchio, like I told you the other day, he's doing the show. He actually put 10 gig over Category 5e cable, but it was only about 70 feet. So you can do it. It just kind of really all depends. Really all depends. Let's go ahead and show this on the stream

OSHA And NEC Study Depth

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here. I'm a 10-year tech network administrator. I just took three practice tests, got all the field questions correct, but I missed the detailed NEC questions. I want to build business on that side. Okay, my question would be: how deep should you learn OSHA business administration or NEC code? I would only pay attention to OSHA or NEC stuff that's listed in the It's a manual. Okay, because there's lots of stuff in the NEC book that's not in the test, or not in the It's a manual. So just go by what pops up in that book. That's what you need to study. If it's in the book, it's probably a test question. All right, 634. We have hit we have hit the wall. Let's go ahead and close the show out. Uh till next time, remember.