Cable Forum - View Single Post - 125M 5m Ethernet Cable vs 10m, Any Difference ?

qasdfdsaq · 13-08-2012, 11:56

Well if you want shielded cable you can get STP in pretty much any category, but with Cat6 being pointless in general there's no reason to pay over the odds for it.

If you're getting cable installed and want shielded then go ahead - but I don't see any particular reason to if it costs more. We (at work) run 50m+ runs of unshielded cable near/along power lines including three-phase and >400v power lines without issue.

The only time I've had an issue is when running VDSL2 and 100BASE-TX Ethernet within the *same* Cat 5 cable, and that only caused interference on the DSL and no issue with the Ethernet.

13-08-2012, 11:56	#13
qasdfdsaq cf.mega poster Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 11,207	Re: 5m Ethernet Cable vs 10m, Any Difference ? Well if you want shielded cable you can get STP in pretty much any category, but with Cat6 being pointless in general there's no reason to pay over the odds for it. If you're getting cable installed and want shielded then go ahead - but I don't see any particular reason to if it costs more. We (at work) run 50m+ runs of unshielded cable near/along power lines including three-phase and >400v power lines without issue. The only time I've had an issue is when running VDSL2 and 100BASE-TX Ethernet within the same Cat 5 cable, and that only caused interference on the DSL and no issue with the Ethernet.