My experience living in the rainy pacific northwest is, regular old blue or grey cat 5 cable has lasted all the 10 years I've been doing this. I use it on all my houses and buildings.
White cat 5 does not work outdoors and deteriorates quickly. Should be no surprise. Up a tower I use an a cable that is flooded and has an aluminum sheath-tube over the inner cat 5 cable. I've bought it for .17 and .25 per foot from an electrical supplier. I like this stuff better than the typical armored gopher cable. One thing for certain working with cables is it's always a learnig experience and as time goes on we seem to always find better techniques. Call it the school of hard knocks. Working with rootennas and those ethernet pass throughs, I've learned to tape them up like an n male connector and to actually fold the cat 5 cable to under the passthrough and tape it in place there. Fixing water damaged connections is not a pleasant experience for me. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
