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I've spent the last few months wiring my house, so I thought I'd share my experience and the process. The Goal My house was built in the 60's, so had no structured wiring of any kind. The telephone wires were 4 untwisted pair, which predated CAT3 by about 20 years. Lukily, just about every room in the house had a telephone drop, so I figured I could replace each drop with CAT6. Thinking about it some more, since I didn't already have cable to each room I figured I might as well bundle that in as well. The goal for phase one was to add 6 drops, each with 2 CAT6 and 1 RG6. Each drop was to terminate in the coat closet due to its central location in the house. This would become my network closet. The Materials 1000' CAT6 1000' RG6 quad sheild CCS (this was a mistake, more on that below) 100' RG6 dual shield pure copper 100' CAT5e 10 pack of 4-slot keystone wall plates 200 pack of CAT6 connectors and matching boots 25 pack of CAT6 keystones 8 pack of RG6 keystones 10 pack of blank keystones 10 pack of low voltage wall inserts Hinged 4U wall mount rack 24-port CAT5e patch panel 24-port CAT6 patch panel 2 desk grommets (2 3/8") 1 RG6 4-port splitter 1 RG6 8port directv splitter RG6 external enclosure Tools: Punch down tool RG6 compression tool RG6 cutter RG6 stripper Wire strippers (only needed to strip the CAT5e to connect to the telephone NID) Philips head screwdriver The Process I planned the following drops: Master bedroom Bedroom 1 Bedroom 2 Bedroom 3 Kitchen Living Room I would also neet the following utility drops: Network closet to external enclosure for CATV and SATV utilities Network closet to Telephone NID This is what I was replacing at each drop: I estimated the distance between the drop location and the network closet, then added 5 to 10 feet to ensure excess, and in some cases, avoid electrical lines in the attic. I cut the RG6 and CAT6 from their spool and labeled each, then attached to the existing telephone line and climbed in the attic to pull through. Lucky for me, the following was true: In the 60's low voltage wires did not have to be stapled down. 2 CAT6 and 1 RG6 is just thin enough to fit through the 1/2" opening already drilled in the joist. Due to the sloe in the roof it would have been impossible to increase the diameter of these holes Punched down Compression fitting RG6 quad shield CCS was a bad choice for a couple reasons. First, Directv requires pure copper for the SWIM. That's why I had to get another 100' of RG6. Second, manipulating quad shield CCS is super difficult. That stuff is rigid. I wasn't able to pull RG6 through Bedroom 1 because that drop went down and made a 90 degree turn through a stud. The quad shield couldn't handle it. While RG6 CCS is fine for video, it sucks for pulling, and has the added limitation of more resistance than pure copper. If I did this again I would have gone pure copper dual shield. The finished product Next I drilled two 2 and 3/8" holes to drop into the network closet. I inserted the rubberized desk grommets to prevent insulation from falling out of the ceiling, and pulled through. The CAT5e is gray. I daisy chained this across the first 8 ports of the CAT5e patch panel. This allows me to patch through telephone to any one of my drops. Each telephone port supports up to 4 lines. You can see here I'm patching the phone into my office. After running the CAT5e for the telephone (and my internet). My speed changed from 7.26 Mbps / 0.92 Mbps to 7.28 Mbps / 2.20 Mbps.

Hello All i will begin the work for announcement plugin next week , so i need a idea to go with it , from my notes i have the fallowing - no categories for announcement . - the announcement will have as table id - the announcement ID (unique) title - title for announcement body - the full announcement body date_added - date added visiblity - clients / publics and clients active - option to hide or show it in clients widget . - we will make a widget for client that will show new announcement (the title and some body truncated ) , then we way make a option to hide the announcemet after xx days ( 1 mounth or 15 days ) - a archive page for all the announcement (ajaxed of course) what is your idea about this ? there is any thing that i have missed or should i add before we begin coding ? best regards for all .

Just an idea, not sure if it would be a good idea to have a option to show the client the "Total Paid" (The total paid by invoices).

That's pretty awesome, I don't think I'd have had the guts to attempt this on my own (nor would my wife even let me most likely...). Very nice job...can you come do mine now?

+1 as an optional feature. Not everyone is going to want it, but I don't see a problem with having the option for those that do .

If you can't download the backup manually, sending over SFTP or Amazon S3 is definitely not going to work, so that's where to start. Check that your temp directory as defined under Setting > System > General is correct and writable. Then, double check that mysqldump exists and can be executed by your cron user and web server user. Finally, I believe Blesta may be looking in /usr/bin/mysqldump for mysqldump. If it exists in a different location, try creating a symlink. ie ln -s /your/path/to/mysqldump /usr/bin/mysqldump

There was only one bug but naja fixed it. Closing a ticket from the user panel did not work. Naja fixed. Everything works great and looks fantastic! Thanks NaJa

You can now re-doawnload the files , the bug has been fixed . best regards

Might just be a bug in the template causing the javascript to not work.

I'd like to second that "high level of support". These guys are always here to help. Thanks Blesta Team