[GRLUG] outdoor cat5 cable

[Adam Tauno Williams]

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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