Even if lan cards *attempt* to reject 60 Hz noise, I would continue the well
established practice of not running cat5/6 through the same holes with high
voltage. You better get a third opinion on that. By the way, my house is
loaded up with plastic tubes and hardly any actual wiring. The installation
cost was about $50 for a fairly big house (at construction time, obviously).
On the rare occasion that I want data or TV in a different place, I slide a
new wire in and I *still* have saved time and money and complexity in the
long run. When I see new houses being built with fat bundles of multimedia
cabling and a giant wiring hub, I think about the $10K that I still have in
my pocket.
-B

"Greg" wrote in message
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The first rule of data cabling is use the state of the art wire. There is
actually something to be said for running smurf tube stub ups into the
attic so
you can replace the wire.
Media is the cheapest part of the project.

You should still terminate with cat 5 connectors so you are compatible
with the
world.

I am not all that concerned with power cables in a home. There aren't the
big
switching transients you see in an office building and lan cards reject
60hz
noise. I wouldn't tywrap them together but if they happen to share a hole
now
and then I wouldn't lose my mind. Usually you can just pick another hole
for a
cat 5.

The real trick of data wiring is making up the keystones, not running the
wire.

Don't strip any more than you have to, don't untwist the wire more than
you
have to and do make the leads short in the connector. Usually there is a
picture. Do it.
This is a transmission line, not a door bell.