RE: Re: Cat 5e or Cat 6 -- shielded or unshielded?

["UKHA " <ukha@xxxxxxx>]

The sockets are manufactured and tested as tuned circuits and you should
use the same manufacturer at each end to ensure end to end performance.
However it will probably be OK, I've had to resort to this a few times in
the past and the link still passed a Cat5e test. Might be worth finding out
what make of socket your electrician is using and find the patch panel to
match.
We use a lot of Hellermann Tyton product and they are shipping as standard
Cat6 UTP panels and Cat5e UTP Outlets, OK for a Cat5e system.

Just a point on the telephone and data sockets being in the same block:
Safety regulations dictate that where power and data are run together in
trunking there must be physical segregation.

I'm sure your aware of this if you've been cabling for years :)

Martin.

-----Original Message-----
From: Derek Erb [mailto:erb@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 04 November 2003 12:19
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Cat 5e or Cat 6 -- shielded or unshielded?


--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "UKHA " <ukha@o...> wrote:

I should have prefaced my original message...

I've been cabling 4-pair Cat5 Ethernet for years and years...

I was unaware that there was such a radical difference in cabling
techniques between Cat5e and Cat6.

I am therefore probably going to avoid the Cat6 and go for the Cat5e.

However I am going to be near electric lines in several points and
will probably go with SFTP.

My electrician however is supplying the RJ45 sockets, as they are in
the same block as the telephone and mains sockets, and he only has
Cat6 FTP sockets.

Question:  Can I run Cat5e STP cable througout and plug one end in
to a Cat6 FTP socket and the other end in to a Cat5e STP wiring
frame?

Thanks,



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