Maybe another way to put it is after you terminate the run, what do you plug in to? Going straight to RJ45ecs is a mess and going straight to the SS wouldn't be very cable management friendly and potentially ruin SS every time water finds it's way in, causing more problems.
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 2:01 PM, Mike Hammett <[email protected]> wrote: > Why are you going into the connector? Terminate the cable and that's the > end of it. > > > (Do you see what I did there?) :-) > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> > <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> > <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> > > Midwest Internet Exchange > http://www.midwest-ix.com > > <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> > <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> > ------------------------------ > *From: *"Josh Luthman" <[email protected]> > *To: *[email protected] > *Sent: *Wednesday, January 13, 2016 12:54:40 PM > *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] Terminating cable at the base of the tower > > > Sure. > > I have a bunch of APs, BHs, cameras, etc on the tower with cat5/rj45. > Those come down the tower. What do you terminate to? How do you organize > them? I prefer terminating to rj45 and not a punch block, but maybe that > would be better if the general consensus goes that way. > > My problem now is that going into an rj45ecs is nearly impossible to open > up when you can't get your fingers around all of it, so when there are many > tightly done together you're screwed. > > > Josh Luthman > Office: 937-552-2340 > Direct: 937-552-2343 > 1100 Wayne St > Suite 1337 > Troy, OH 45373 > > On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 1:52 PM, Josh Reynolds <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I'm not sure I understand your question... >> >> Can you explain things a bit better? >> >> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Josh Luthman >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > We've been using RJ45ECS for a while but on sites with many (>6) aps >> this >> > presents a problem if we need to get to the cable. After some frost >> bite, I >> > gave up and just cut the cable to reterminate it. I'd like to have a >> better >> > solution for 1 and many runs. >> > >> > What has worked for you guys when winter comes around and you need >> access to >> > the cables? >> > >> > Josh Luthman >> > Office: 937-552-2340 >> > Direct: 937-552-2343 >> > 1100 Wayne St >> > Suite 1337 >> > Troy, OH 45373 >> > > >
