Where to buy long, pre-terminated external cat6 cable?

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#2229914 3-May-2019 08:45

sbiddle:

FTP cable is no good unless you're going to go have proper bonding and earthed equipment at both ends. It has the ability to introduce issues if not correctly earthed. Yes it can offer some increased noise immunity even if not correctly shielded, but an outdoor run is unlikely to expose the cable to EMF/RF sources that would cause issues.

This cable was only available in FTP, and I think STP, otherwise I would have bought UTP.

What if the foil shield is simply not used?

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#2229940 3-May-2019 09:08

MichaelNZ:

sbiddle:

FTP cable is no good unless you're going to go have proper bonding and earthed equipment at both ends. It has the ability to introduce issues if not correctly earthed. Yes it can offer some increased noise immunity even if not correctly shielded, but an outdoor run is unlikely to expose the cable to EMF/RF sources that would cause issues.

This cable was only available in FTP, and I think STP, otherwise I would have bought UTP.

What if the foil shield is simply not used?

It becomes a beverage antenna and can potentially couple all manner of sh!t in, dont use F/STP unless you know how to correctly single point earth it.

As for comments regarding buildings on different phases, this is not exactly correct, what is important is that its on a same/similar earth plane, if the buildings are fed from the same street transformer and from a common switchboard (even though the granny flat may have a sub board) then there should be little issues, the issue comes about when they are well spaced and there is a reliance on ground conductivity between buildings and no decent copper bond between them. In a typical NZ residential section this should not be too much of an issue.

Further, most IT gear is floating anyway, if the granny flat just has a isolated switch and/or WAP that is fed from a switchmode psu that is double insulated then in essence there is no earth loop potential of happening.

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#2229963 3-May-2019 09:45

backfiah: ... Also is cat6 strictly better than cat5e, or is it harder to work with? ...

Nobody commented on this yet.

Thx to Google, take your pick (in my order of preference)

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#2230080 3-May-2019 12:14

Thanks all for the generous offers to terminate cable for me. I'll see if the electrical wholesalers are reasonable, otherwise may take someone up on that :)

noroad:

Can I suggest you really should use fibre for this ? You can get a custom fibre patch lead made by http://fs.com pretty cheaply and basic switches with SFP cages are also real cheap. You are a lot less likely to have things go badly wrong due to earthing differences that way and the cost will be not much different.

That's an interesting idea. So I would want LC connectors and then they can just go straight into a supporting switch? Don't suppose you have a good resource for a basic fibre LAN?

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#2230091 3-May-2019 12:27

cyril7:

MichaelNZ:

sbiddle:

FTP cable is no good unless you're going to go have proper bonding and earthed equipment at both ends. It has the ability to introduce issues if not correctly earthed. Yes it can offer some increased noise immunity even if not correctly shielded, but an outdoor run is unlikely to expose the cable to EMF/RF sources that would cause issues.

This cable was only available in FTP, and I think STP, otherwise I would have bought UTP.

What if the foil shield is simply not used?

It becomes a beverage antenna and can potentially couple all manner of sh!t in, dont use F/STP unless you know how to correctly single point earth it.

As for comments regarding buildings on different phases, this is not exactly correct, what is important is that its on a same/similar earth plane,

are you sure about that? myself and the previous commenter on this issue are both trained and qualified to be advising that you should not be running a conductor between two separate buildings without proper checks being done. the fact that everything has a common ground is exactly the reason why you'll be risking a fatal 415 volt shock otherwise.

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#2230094 3-May-2019 12:33

backfiah:

That's an interesting idea. So I would want LC connectors and then they can just go straight into a supporting switch? Don't suppose you have a good resource for a basic fibre LAN?

LC/UPC would be what you need. You can have your choice of multi-mode or single-mode. So if you go here -

https://www.fs.com/products/20720.html

Select lc/upc each end, PVC and the length. 80M gives you 51.91+ 46.00 shipping USD for Ruggedized duplex single mode.

Then add a couple of 1G SFP's at $7USD each https://www.fs.com/products/12622.html

These can go into your favorite switch that has an SFP port, there are plenty of these around going cheap. Or media converters like this - https://www.fs.com/products/35333.html or https://www.fs.com/products/35334.html

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#2230118 3-May-2019 12:59

backfiah:

Thanks all for the generous offers to terminate cable for me. I'll see if the electrical wholesalers are reasonable, otherwise may take someone up on that :)

If you dont know someone with an account they will punish you on price. Cat6 standard rate is approx $1.6/m + GST (that is not outdoor gel filled) which is an outrageous price. I suspect Gel filled will cost significantly more a meter.

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#2230126 3-May-2019 13:16

Hi, running telecom cables between buildings is assuming they are near by is common practice and to my knowledge not a problem, if it is someone better call Chorus and get them to shutdown the copper network real quick.

Running fibre does circumvent any galvanic related issues, however if the buildings are on the same grounding and in close proximity (say 15-20m) then there should be no issues. If the two are on different earthing "then" you risk a potential diff that could be problematic.

A few years back I was involved in the engineering support for the SNUP program, as expected buildings (or more correctly floor distributors) were connected by fibre, however it was allowable that buildings less that 15m apart could if for various reasons could be linked by copper (although fibre was the preferred solution), and more importantly two or more close by buildings could be fed from a common floor distributor (cabinet) with the copper outlet cabling installed via underground (or walkway ducts if available) to any of those associated buildings between the outlet and floor distributor, this is common practice and would have occurred on many hundreds of the 2500+ schools, and no rules or technical issues to my knowledge have arisen from this.

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#2230129 3-May-2019 13:23

itxtme:

backfiah:

Thanks all for the generous offers to terminate cable for me. I'll see if the electrical wholesalers are reasonable, otherwise may take someone up on that :)

If you dont know someone with an account they will punish you on price. Cat6 standard rate is approx $1.6/m + GST (that is not outdoor gel filled) which is an outrageous price. I suspect Gel filled will cost significantly more a meter.

Standard UTP indoor Cat6 trade is around $0.50/m although some brands are a little more, for underground gel flooded I think the last reel I got was around $0.70/m for cat5e, I see Cat6 gel flooded is about the same.

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#2230130 3-May-2019 13:26

Of course, if you're just doing it to put a wireless access point in the flat, then you could use Power over Ethernet to power it from the main house and point becomes moot

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#2230393 3-May-2019 18:02

noroad:

backfiah:

That's an interesting idea. So I would want LC connectors and then they can just go straight into a supporting switch? Don't suppose you have a good resource for a basic fibre LAN?

LC/UPC would be what you need. You can have your choice of multi-mode or single-mode. So if you go here -

https://www.fs.com/products/20720.html

Select lc/upc each end, PVC and the length. 80M gives you 51.91+ 46.00 shipping USD for Ruggedized duplex single mode.

Then add a couple of 1G SFP's at $7USD each https://www.fs.com/products/12622.html

These can go into your favorite switch that has an SFP port, there are plenty of these around going cheap. Or media converters like this - https://www.fs.com/products/35333.html or https://www.fs.com/products/35334.html

Neat! That shipping is a bit of a killer though. My reading is that multi-mode is preferable unless v. high distance or bandwidth (10G+) is needed? So OM1 is perhaps best since will work with nearly any hardware? Non-ruggedised is a hell of a lot cheaper to ship ($13 NZ) --- is the ruggedised stuff needed if it's in conduit/internal the whole time? I assume water ingress is less troublesome in fibre vs copper.

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#2230667 4-May-2019 09:09

backfiah:

Neat! That shipping is a bit of a killer though. My reading is that multi-mode is preferable unless v. high distance or bandwidth (10G+) is needed? So OM1 is perhaps best since will work with nearly any hardware? Non-ruggedised is a hell of a lot cheaper to ship ($13 NZ) --- is the ruggedised stuff needed if it's in conduit/internal the whole time? I assume water ingress is less troublesome in fibre vs copper.

Multimode is perfectly fine, and being in conduit you could certainly use a standard patch lead as opposed to ruggedised. Water on the fibre is no issue, UV and rough handling are your only worries so as long as you are not overly rough installing it you are good. Generally multimode is cheaper for short (500M) runs but with 1G optics its much of a muchness now. The only advantage to using single mode I can see in this case is if you ever wanted to extend an ONT to the remote site you can do this with single mode, but really its more just personal preference.

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#2230851 4-May-2019 14:53

noroad:

backfiah:

Neat! That shipping is a bit of a killer though. My reading is that multi-mode is preferable unless v. high distance or bandwidth (10G+) is needed? So OM1 is perhaps best since will work with nearly any hardware? Non-ruggedised is a hell of a lot cheaper to ship ($13 NZ) --- is the ruggedised stuff needed if it's in conduit/internal the whole time? I assume water ingress is less troublesome in fibre vs copper.

Multimode is perfectly fine, and being in conduit you could certainly use a standard patch lead as opposed to ruggedised. Water on the fibre is no issue, UV and rough handling are your only worries so as long as you are not overly rough installing it you are good. Generally multimode is cheaper for short (500M) runs but with 1G optics its much of a muchness now. The only advantage to using single mode I can see in this case is if you ever wanted to extend an ONT to the remote site you can do this with single mode, but really its more just personal preference.

Thanks again. Turns out that single mode is actually cheaper anyway!

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#2231854 6-May-2019 18:22

jnimmo:

Of course, if you're just doing it to put a wireless access point in the flat, then you could use Power over Ethernet to power it from the main house and point becomes moot

That's not correct. Think about brushing your fingers on the pins of the patch lead.. if they earth potential is significantly different to the building at the other end you're going to get a nasty surprise.

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#2231896 6-May-2019 19:32

For god's sake... going by some comments its amazing there is anyone left who has spent any time in a business premises with data cabling between buildings. We should have all been electrocuted apparently!!

Just grab some underground cat5/cat6 (gel filled, or dual wall, suit yourself). Run it properly, stick it in some conduit where you can. Dont do anything dumb like share a conduit with a power cable or something. Plug it in, win.

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