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Re: Cat5 cable for running outside
- To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: Cat5 cable for running outside
- From: "matt_miles_uk" <m_miles@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 16:32:37 -0000
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Thanks for the advice James!
Matt
--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "James Hoye" <yahoo@xxxxxxx; wrote:
> > > I had thought about suggesting fibre for this but... that
assumes
> > the
> > > cat5 is exclusively for ethernet (I think... do the media
> > converters
> > > handle non-ethernet things like kat5 etc ?)
> >
> > I have no idea, I've got a couple sitting at my parents house -
i'll
> > give them a quick test and let you know.
>
> It won't work. KAT5 relies on the conductive properties of copper
to be
> able to send an electrical signal from point A to point B.
>
> The copper->fibre transceivers are for converting electrical
signals
> conforming to the *Ethernet* standard (for voltage, polarity,
frequency,
> current etc) from one medium to the other.
>
> Since KAT5 is sending a balanced video/audio signal any
transceiver will not
> work as KAT5 does not talk Ethernet.
>
> *** Connecting one may destroy your KAT5 and/or transceiver ***
>
> James H
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