klem kedidelhopper wrote:
A friend is doing his own network wiring. He told me what he did and I
have serious doubts as to whether it will work at all. This is what
he's done: he ran an underground shielded cable between metal junction
boxes mounted on the outside of two buildings. The shield is grounded
at one end, not connected to anything just wrapped and taped at the
other, (this was my suggestion). So far everything sounds OK. now
here's the interesting part. He's apparently taken a twenty foot
network cable with RJ45's on either end, chopped it in half, and wire
nutted this to the underground color for color at each end. He plans
to connect this between the new computer which he hasn't received yet
and the network. I told him that he should have used a termination
block and offered that worst case this arrangement won't work at all.
Best case he'll suffer a significant loss of speed. He doesn't believe
that there will be any problem with this at all though, and if it is
it would be minor. So who's right? Can this type of cob job work, and
if so would performance be significantly compromised, and how much?
Thanks, Lenny

This is probably OK, if by "network" he's shooting for connecting two 9600
baud lease line modems together.