[TriLUG] OT: Home Depot and Cat 5

[Mike M]

On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 12:24:28PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> 
> I have an additional question. I have a 150' cat5 cable hand made by my 
> vendor. It doesn't work. A friend told me that with long runs there's a 
> special wiring method than with short runs, in order to limit capacitance or 
> inductance or some such.
> 
> Anyone know about that?
> 
> One thing I can tell you is that the non-working cable has only 4 conductors 
> crimped. For long cables, should all 8 be crimped?

"buzz" it out to ensure it's built correctly.

Daily I run 5-10 ports over 50' 4-wire cables.  I am sitting
outside connected over a 100' cable now (2 each 50' with a
coupler, both 8-wire).  I operate in an EMI noisy environment
(lots of cheap PCs; cellphone operation is intermittent). 
In summary, I've got a less than optimal environment with
long cables and no significant problems. My guess is your
cables not built correctly.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> SteveT
> 
> Steve Litt
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