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Posted by Michael Quinlan on August 2, 2004, 7:00 am
Please log in for more thread options Take another look, and I think you'll see that the outdoor-rated cable is only 500', not 1000' - making the cost per foot higher than for the riser-rated cable. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Dmitri(Cabling-Design.com on August 3, 2004, 5:43 am
Please log in for more thread options I certainly did not mean to sound like a Home Depot salesman that knows his inventory as the back of his hand. You may very well be right because the OSP cable should have slightly larger outside diameter. I may just stop by HD to check it out one more time. But the point is: even at some premium in price using an OSP cable outdoors does justify the save headache to me. BTW, the coax prices I used are from a valid, recent source, not Home Depot. -- Dmitri Abaimov, RCDD http://www.cabling-design.com Cabling Forum, color codes, pinouts and other useful resources for premises cabling users and pros http://www.cabling-design.com/homecabling Residential Cabling Guide ------------------------------------- Michael Quinlan wrote: > Dmitri(Cabling-Design.com) wrote:
>> Well, not sure about the back of the track ;-), but Home Depot
>> sells >> 1000ft boxes of of General Cable's plenum CAT5E for $189, indoor >> PVC CAT5E >> for $66 and outdoor CAT5E for $45. The difference could be more >> extreme: >> 0.300 coax cable costs me $3.32/ft plenum and only $0.31 outdoor > Take another look, and I think you'll see that the outdoor-rated cable
> is only 500', not 1000' - making the cost per foot higher than for the > riser-rated cable. ##-----------------------------------------------## Article posted with Cabling-Design.com Newsgroup Archive http://www.cabling-design.com/forums no-spam read and post WWW interface to your favorite newsgroup - comp.dcom.cabling ##-----------------------------------------------## | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Michael Quinlan on August 3, 2004, 6:22 am
Please log in for more thread options Dmitri(Cabling-Design.com) wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> > I certainly did not mean to sound like a Home Depot salesman that knows > his inventory as the back of his hand. You may very well be right because > the OSP cable should have slightly larger outside diameter. I may just > stop by HD to check it out one more time. But the point is: even at some > premium in price using an OSP cable outdoors does justify the save > headache to me. > > BTW, the coax prices I used are from a valid, recent source, not Home > Depot. > Whenever running cable outdoors, I use outdoor rated cable. Of course, I charge the customer accordingly. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Dmitri(Cabling-Design.com on August 4, 2004, 9:46 pm
Please log in for more thread options Just to follow up on this after a visit to HD:
HD prices are $39 for 500' PVC and $57 for 500' indoor/outdoor CAT5E Indoor/outdoor cable is a different animal from outdoor only, so I guess, the slight price premium is justifiable in this case: no need to transition to indoor cable for indoor pulls over 50'. -- Dmitri Abaimov, RCDD http://www.cabling-design.com Cabling Forum, color codes, pinouts and other useful resources for premises cabling users and pros http://www.cabling-design.com/homecabling Residential Cabling Guide ------------------------------------- Michael Quinlan wrote: > Dmitri(Cabling-Design.com) wrote:
>> Well, not sure about the back of the track ;-), but Home Depot
>> sells >> 1000ft boxes of of General Cable's plenum CAT5E for $189, indoor >> PVC CAT5E >> for $66 and outdoor CAT5E for $45. The difference could be more >> extreme: >> 0.300 coax cable costs me $3.32/ft plenum and only $0.31 outdoor > Take another look, and I think you'll see that the outdoor-rated cable
> is only 500', not 1000' - making the cost per foot higher than for the > riser-rated cable. ##-----------------------------------------------## Article posted with Cabling-Design.com Newsgroup Archive http://www.cabling-design.com/forums no-spam read and post WWW interface to your favorite newsgroup - comp.dcom.cabling ##-----------------------------------------------## | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Mikkel on August 3, 2004, 6:45 pm
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"Bob Alston" <bobalston AT aol DOT com> wrote in message
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> What has been your experience in using standard Ethernet cable, cat5 or > in an outside situation? I need to run some Ethernet cable outside, up
the
> outside wall to the top of the 2nd story, then under the 2nd story
overhang,
> adjacent to the gutters and then inside to the access point. Anyone see a
variety
> need to find specific outdoor rated Ethernet cable or should garden > cat5/cat6 work?
I have had a normal PVC jacketed Cat 5e cable running from one building to another for about 5 years now. The cable is winded around a thin wire wich is going 5 m above the ground, the run is around 25 m. It has lasted for wind, rain, sun, snow and ice. -Mikkel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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> 1000ft boxes of of General Cable's plenum CAT5E for $189, indoor PVC CAT5E
> for $66 and outdoor CAT5E for $45. The difference could be more extreme:
> 0.300 coax cable costs me $3.32/ft plenum and only $0.31 outdoor