Adding a network socket

Den Phillips · 2006-04-23T14:06:38+00:00

Hello DIY'ersPerhaps off-topic for this group, sorry if it is, but I can't find a betterone!We need an extra CAT5 socket in an office. Have added extra ones before, sotools and the networking know-how is not a problem.Now, to where we want the socket to go, there is trunking going all the wayfrom the network cabinet already. This trunking has no CAT5 in it, itcontains standard 2.5 mains cable. Is it legal to put a length of CAT5 inthe trunking along with the mains cable, and tap it out where we need theCAT5 socket? The trunking is 16mm x 25mm, there's plenty space to put CAT5in there.I realise it being sited right next to mains cable may have an adverseeffect on speed, but this aside, is it an option?Thanks everyone.

Apr 23, 2006 25 Replies

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Den Phillips 20 years ago

Thanks for the suggestions of the doublers Tim & Bob, we aren't using Gigabit (at least yet), so we only need 2 pairs in the CAT5. We could split off two pairs...

...but there's no network socket in this new location to split! :-(

Looks like it'll be new trunking, unless a kind soul can point me in the direction of something to suitably insulate the CAT5 inside the 16x25?

Bob, you mentioned some "mains grade flexible trunking".. Do you have a link with a suitable product? I don't remember seeing this before?

Thanks for the pointer to this in the regs from your earlier message, my brother has a copy of these I'll ask to take a look at today.

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tony sayer 20 years ago

Suppose all manner of adverse things could happen.

We've just had a bloody squirrel gnaw through some outside grade CAT5 cable:!......

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T i m 20 years ago

I thought that was an issue even for 100baseT Bob?

Summat about the spacing between adjacent ccts being insufficient when not in a separate sheath?

Of course the specs and what-you-can-get-away-with are rarely the same thing ;-)

All the best ..

T i m

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Bob Eager 20 years ago

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one place, although that's 10 metres! It gives you the idea; I'm sure you can source some locally now you know what it's like.

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Bob Eager 20 years ago

Oh, I agree. But the original question was 'ignoring signal quality' to some extent so I stuck with that!

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Steve Walker 20 years ago

Setting aside legality & good practice, I ran a LAN cable alongside a bundle of 240v cabling to get it up into the loft, and the networking capacity/reliability etc seems to be unimpaired.

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