Hi,
I am looking for some realistic advice please.
I need to run some electrical and network cable through an outside conduit from my house to my shed along a distance of about 20 meters. The conduit will be buried a couple of feet underground.
The electrical cable will be standard household stuff. I'm in the UK so 240V and perhaps up to 15A? (I'm not an electrician)
I know that running network cable parallel to electrical cable is 'a bad idea', but I'm looking to understand 'how bad'. I'm not looking for the fastest speeds just decent reliable connectivity, for instance currently the networking gear I have is 100Mbps and no doubt at some point it'll all be 1000Mbps.
So I presume I'm looking at either shielded cat5e or shielded cat6 network cable in a 4" (200mm) conduit running parallel with the electrical cable for about 20 meters. Perhaps there's such thing as shielded electrical cable too?
Anyway I'd be happy if my 100Mbps kit would work <5ms response and without packet drops at say 30Mbps. Likewise if/when my kit is 1000Mbps if it obtained 300Mbps that'd be fine. I don't mind sacrificing some speed but I don't want an unreliable network.
So is that realistic? Or would running network cable next to electrical cable create a worse situation than that?
Ideally I'd like to find some reports or evidence of people that have tried this and know how it works out in practice.
Thanks very much in advance for your advice,
Cheers,
Mark
I am looking for some realistic advice please.
I need to run some electrical and network cable through an outside conduit from my house to my shed along a distance of about 20 meters. The conduit will be buried a couple of feet underground.
The electrical cable will be standard household stuff. I'm in the UK so 240V and perhaps up to 15A? (I'm not an electrician)
I know that running network cable parallel to electrical cable is 'a bad idea', but I'm looking to understand 'how bad'. I'm not looking for the fastest speeds just decent reliable connectivity, for instance currently the networking gear I have is 100Mbps and no doubt at some point it'll all be 1000Mbps.
So I presume I'm looking at either shielded cat5e or shielded cat6 network cable in a 4" (200mm) conduit running parallel with the electrical cable for about 20 meters. Perhaps there's such thing as shielded electrical cable too?
Anyway I'd be happy if my 100Mbps kit would work <5ms response and without packet drops at say 30Mbps. Likewise if/when my kit is 1000Mbps if it obtained 300Mbps that'd be fine. I don't mind sacrificing some speed but I don't want an unreliable network.
So is that realistic? Or would running network cable next to electrical cable create a worse situation than that?
Ideally I'd like to find some reports or evidence of people that have tried this and know how it works out in practice.
Thanks very much in advance for your advice,
Cheers,
Mark