[GRLUG] outdoor cat5 cable

[Tim Schmidt]

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.

--tim