yuri wrote, On 22/01/14 00:27: > On 21 January 2014 10:02, Robert Fisher wrote: >> Standard cables will be fine if run in conduit. > Sorry, no. > Since changing career from sparky to telco tech, I've learned a few things. > One of them is that all outdoor conduit will eventually fill up with > water, no matter how good you think you've waterproofed it. > > Outdoor rated grease-filled cat6 is a must if you're looking for a long-term > solution.
So why bother with the conduit / pipe then? Those outdoor cables are rated for direct bury, > Maybe some single-mode and multi-mode fibre if you *really* want to > future-proof. Copper is fine in the forseeable future for home. And multimode is history, nobody installs that anymore unless its an existing deployment. Everything new going in is single-mode. -- CF
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