[GRLUG] outdoor cat5 cable

Eric Beversluis ebever at researchintegration.org
Fri Jun 22 16:49:35 EDT 2012


It doesn't have to go to a different building. Just along the outside of
my house and back in. There's TV and telephone cable run all around the
house. I'm assuming that's all exterior-quality cable? 

So is the sunlight more of an issue than the rain and wind?



On Fri, 2012-06-22 at 15:36 -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Jun 2012, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> 
> > I need to run Ethernet from one part of the house to another and I don't
> > have a basement (slab house). So I was thinking of going out the wall
> > and then back in at the room where I need it.
> >
> Get some 1/2" gray PVC conduit and run through the wall into a box, down
> into the ground (at least a foot deep, if possible), then back up at the
> other building.
> 
> PVC conduit is a *lot* cheaper than paying for direct burial wire.
> 
> 	Lee
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