DO you know if

[WroawMinidisk]

DO you know if,
CAT5 data/voice cables have a probelm with running in metal trunking,
Cheers. Joe

[CyberDrac]

Not unless you are running parallel with power cables ... should be fine otherwise.

CD

[m00]

By design there should not be problems with any interference, even if running next to normal (ie ring main, 13A etc) power cables. I suppose if you were running them near very high mains currents you could start to have problems, but not in a normal domestic or office environment.

[KingDaveRa]

An example working situation at work:

There's a metal trunk which runs about 10 metres under the floor with 24 cat5e cables in it running at 100mb. All works perfectly well, so you should be fine.

I'm pretty certain we've got metal conduits in the risers with cabling in too, along with some huge power cables for the phone masts on the roof.

So I reckon it'd work no problem.

[Brains-Lans]

Cat-5 as long as its true twisted pair cat5 will work without any degregation in quality, just dont run some mains distribution board feed through the same conduet and your fine.

[WroawMinidisk]

Cheers, :D
I new about the mains cables, just not sure about them all alone in metal trunking :)

(try this: get a piece of metal conduit, and say a kettle, split the insulation so all the cores are seperated, and put the live down the metal pipe, and make the nutrell (i should know how to spell this but i dont :P) go around the out side, watch it get hot :P )

[Cheez]

We have phone masts on the roof? Thats how the govornment control peoples minds!

/brings his tinfoil hat to work.

[KingDaveRa]

Originally posted by Chris
We have phone masts on the roof? Thats how the govornment control peoples minds!

/brings his tinfoil hat to work.

Yeah, there's an O2 mast on the north wing, and an Orange mast (I think) on the original part of the building on F-Floor.

Those things rake in rediculous amounts of money.

[Brains-Lans]

selling your roof to a phone network, esp in high places in rural areas is a certain way of making sure that you have a regular income. with all the fighting to gain most coverage and most correctly connected calls they are quite willing to pay.