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Re: Question about running Cat5
« Reply #15 on: December 14, 2012, 10:05:39 am »
Shaunkad has the right idea, 1 inside feeding 1 outside that has the in use cover.
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Re: Question about running Cat5
« Reply #16 on: December 14, 2012, 10:10:35 am »
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Would anyone care to offer some good install ideas for cat5 from inside to outside house?  I just throw it between a window but would like to have a better solution.  I am old school and will never go wireless.  I am knowledgeable about installing electric but never can come up with a cat5 plan.

I have been using a cat5 from my telecom closet to above my front door the past 4 years.
So the cable goes from the closet up into the attic and outside where the soffit is. Now I did add an extension above my front door for rain protection while getting in and out of the house and that is where the cables and splitter and active hub live during the light show season.

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Re: Question about running Cat5
« Reply #17 on: December 16, 2012, 01:44:55 am »
I particularly like the idea of the in use box outside and a regular keystone inside, that way it can just be disconnected in the off season. Some of the installations we did in celebration, fl had underground junction boxes set at ground level but the cost of these is a little outrageous. that said, if you need more than two runs of Ethernet cable to run your system the cost becomes moot as the waterproof in service box can cost 20+ easily. You could run conduit to a box outside in the ground and continue it to the permanent locations.

You might even use a weatherhead service entrance to keep water out of your box when you send your cables down to the junction. You could simply attach keystones in the junction box, run your show wires wherever else they need to go and run them down through the weatherhead entrance to the junction box, and connect them there.

The biggest key is to keep moisture away from the keystone jacks because they are not made to handle moisture. I installed some IP66 "weatherproof" cameras outside on a wall and not even 3 months later we had to cut off the pigtails and wire them up inside a weatherproof box.

YMMV.... Where I live you can get away with a lot when it is low voltage. Its the electric service that gets you in loads of trouble. Might be different/more stringent where you live. It is still true here that you cannot run service electricity in the same conduit with communications wire. Even when it is possible our inspectors frown upon it. Conduit is too cheap to combine them when you are messing with something that can burn your house down.