[GRLUG] outdoor cat5 cable

[Eric Beversluis]

Thanks, all. 
Another good reason to have a house with a basement. But given the high
watertable here east of Cleveland, overall I'm probably better off with
the slab and French drains.

On Fri, 2012-06-22 at 16:58 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-06-22 at 16:55 -0400, Tim Schmidt wrote: 
> > On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Eric Beversluis
> > <ebever at researchintegration.org> wrote:
> > > 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?
> > Sunlight (specifically UV light) will turn unprotected PVC into
> > crumbly chalky dust inside a month or two.
> 
> +1.  Run it inside conduit, or if you want to be a really cheap bastard
> slather it with paint.  Paint will buy you some time.  Or buy the more
> expensive burial grade CAT5.
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