Re: Cat5 Cabling and the mains

["graham_howe" <graham@xxxxxxx>]

--- In ukha_d@y..., "Mark Harrison" <Mark.Harrison@e...>
wrote:
> As ever, the faster you drive it, the more likely you are to have 
problems.
> 
> I assume you're running no faster than 100Mb/sec at the moment... 
if you move to ATM (yeah, right, 'cos that's a domestic standard!) or 
Gigabit ethernet, you may find that you get too many errors.
> 
> Mark
> 

Yeah, *just* 100Mb/sec at the moment, but I think I can live with 
that. The only place I can see me ever wanting to have Gigabit 
ethernet would be between the switches, the router and the server, 
all of which are in node zero and do not have mains near to the CAT5 
(and where I could easily re-run cables anyway).

I think that in many houses (particularly old places like mine) there 
is just no chance of avoiding mains and CAT5 running alongside each 
other from time to time, but I have tried just about everything over 
CAT5 so far (LAN, IR, CCTV, Phone, PIR, KAT5) and have not had a 
single problem yet!

Once I get round to rewiring lights and switches in 'important' rooms 
I will probably runn CAT5 to each switch point too, and that will 
certainly lie along side the mains.

Graham



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