RE: Re: Cat5 cable for running outside

["Hawes,Timothy Edward (GEG)" <haweste@xxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: matt_miles_uk Sent: 05 February 2004 15:20
>
> Hi!
>
> don't mean to sound like an idiot (i find it very easy!).  Why use
> cat5 at all?  Couldn't you use fibre and a converter on either end?
> Media converters are available on e-bay for next to nothing if your
> happy to use 10mbps... the 100mbps ones aren't that much more either.

Fair point, and is in actual fact what I want to do. However, the run is
around 80m and lead time for pre-terminated fiber is about a week. I needed
a solution quicker than that - like delivery tomorrow from RS :-)

> I suppose the cable is the expensive bit, depends how far you have
> to go really.

2x 100meg media converters, patch leads plus 2x 10/100 switches are about
300 quid total, 2-off lightning arrestors for copper are about the same. So
the 'boxes' cost is a wash. Cable should be cheaper with copper, and I
don't need a specialist to terminate it. Not so with fiber.

The actual fiber cable is pretty cheap, a quick google gave about GBP 1 per
metre for 4-core external grade cable. The expensive part is the
termination - I work on a budget price of 10-15 quid per connector which
then gives total cost of around 180 quid.

Googling for "external utp" gave a price of 120 quid for 305m,
but back-order only :-((

So not a huge difference in cabling either.

But patch leads on e-bay aren't hard to find up to
> about 25m.
>
> Just a thought,
>
> HTH.
>
> Matt
>
> P.S.
>
> No affiliation to e-bay, not tryign to sell stuff etc....

No problem - thanks Matt.

Tim H.

P.S. I'll update the FAQ with this, and some of the other stuff I promised
to do too . . .


> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Robert Welsh" <bob-ukha@xxxxxxx;
wrote:
> > > Thanks. I do remember the general discussion, particularly
> > > the "don't do it" part ;-)
> > > I'm going to provide lightning protection and the cable will
> > > be physically protected by tray. It's really the sheath I
was
> > > worried about.
> > >
> > > The links did throw up the right search string for Google
> > > though, so thanks :-)
> >
> > No problem, Tim.
> >
> > Maybe once you've got your answers you could do a little write-up
> in the
> > FAQ ?
> > http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/faq/
> >
> > Just an idea...
> >
> > Cheers,
> > 	Rob

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