Hi, I can get you grease filled UTP cable for out doors if you want...
However... I just put up an over head one using normal cable, I'm sure it will die in 36 months, at which point I'll replace it... thou my Dad's network has had cables running out side for years now. Yes they will fail. No they won't last 25 - 50 years... but do you care? If you want out door cable then I'm happy to sort you, it's only 2 or 3 bucks iirc per meter, but seriously... I wouldn't bother if you can keep the cable dry(ish). I would put a tube in thou so that you can pull a new cable when you need to. Some 13mm irigation pipe will do the job and it's cheap from bunnings. HTH Cheers Don On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 18:26 +1200, Reg wrote: > Speaking of cables, I am planning to run a 35 m Cat 5 enhanced UTP patch > network cable from my house to an outside studio. I plan to go through the > floor under the house, out an air vent and then underground to the studio. > > Questions: > How durable is this cable? Is it subject to problems from moisture? I am > wondering whether to just dig a deep trench and bury it as I did when I ran > a phone cable (which was designed for outside and has silicon inside it) > there or whether to feed the underground section through a pvc pipe? > > > Kind Regards > Reg > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Craig FALCONER [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, 19 May 2006 8:53 a.m. > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: RE: Who donated that dunger? Anyone for a WiFry? > > > > The limits on USB are the same for 1.1 as 2.0 afaik > > > > No more than 5 metres of unboosted cable. (I have a mouse with a 6 foot > cord on the end of a 5 metre extension and it works on a USB2 > > port but not a > > USB1 port) > > > > Maximum total length is 25 metres with active signal boosters every 5 > > metres. (probably to do with bit times and all that coax ethernet timing > > stuff from last century.) > > > > > > -- > > C. Falconer > > http://www.avonside.school.nz/ > > http://criggie.dyndns.org/ > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Andrew Errington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, 18 May 2006 5:47 p.m. > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: Who donated that dunger? Anyone for a WiFry? > > > > > > <snip> > > > > I expect that you could make a USB cable as long as you like, but the > > signals have a high clock rate so they would degrade past a certain point > > (that and the voltage drop). 5m might be an arbitrary limit set by the USB > > specification, but it is not unreasonable, and guaranteed to work. > > > > >
