On Sun, 03 Jun 2018 17:14:42 -0400, Clare Snyder
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On Sat, 2 Jun 2018 23:29:12 -0500, -MIKE-
wrote:

On 6/2/18 10:40 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 2 Jun 2018 22:23:54 -0500, -MIKE-
wrote:

On 6/2/18 9:41 PM, J. Clarke wrote:
On Sun, 03 Jun 2018 02:10:39 GMT, Puckdropper
wrote:

-MIKE- wrote in news
On 6/2/18 10:11 AM, Puckdropper wrote:

My most recent wiring project was running outdoor rated CAT6 out to
the garage. You're already digging for one set of cable, might it be
worth digging for another? (Cat6 is easy to terminate, just use a
punch down connector and a decent punch tool.)

You can't run network cable close to power cable, though, unless you
take certain precautions. Parallel runs are a bad thing, but if you
must go close to power cables you can enclose the cable in a grounded
pipe. I didn't run in to these problems with my cable run, so I
didn't research them further.

Puckdropper


My buddy is an IT guru and he told me to run CAT10 with the AC and I'd
be fine.



I wasn't aware CAT10 was a thing yet. AFAICT, they're only up to CAT7.

A quick search (I'm not an expert, not even claiming to be) doesn't show
any results for CAT10. Wonder if he meant something different?

FWIW, I'd put the LAN cables in a different conduit as well. You know
that LAN standards will evolve for a while longer and you might decide 20
years down the road it's worth upgrading to faster cable. It'd be easier
to pull the cables out if all that's there is LAN and you don't have
another cable you need to stay put.

While I agree that it's good to have the cables separated, I would be
very surprised if anything above 10GB/sec was common for home use in
20 years. The trend is to wifi, not faster wired networks.


My guy says the trend will be back to wired, because wireless is getting
too clogged up.

I don't believe that at all. Antenna diversity and MIMO solve these
problems in all but the most dense living situations.

Wired is still faster and more reliable and will be for the foreseeable
future or until they find new frequencies. :-)

What IS driving some people back to wired connections is SECURITY.
There are facilities where NO WIRELESS connections are allowed for
just that reason.

One time back in the '80s I looked into what was needed to access the
government's supercomputers for my employer. We realized after a
while that we could probably get our own for less than that would cost
us. Definitely no wireless there. Everything fiber, Faraday cage
around the room in which the access point would be located, specially
certified terminals.

On the other hand my employer doesn't have any problem with
wifi--presumably they've done their homework on setting it up--half a
floor of the building is data security and it's a _big_ building. But
there the scenario of someone sitting in the parking lot sniffing
doesn't happen--the lot is badge-access gated with the closest point
from the building to the fence is over a hundred feet and that fence
is on a four-lane with no parking allowed.

There is such a thing as "fast enough". We have exactly one wired link
in our house (that the cable company put in), basically because
there's no point in adding any more.



Add 30ft. to equation and it's not fast enough anymore.
I stream video to my garage/shop and it's not fast enough over wifi from
20ft. away.
We have the fastest internet in town and the fastest/fastest router.
When I ran Ethernet from the router to the garage through a wifi
extender, all of a sudden I'm getting 400mbps when I was only getting
50-100 from the router.