Best/most reasonable cat5e cable?

[PorscheGT4]

AMST09 said:

Rather than buying shielded keep the cables a minimum of 150mm from all power cables

you don't need to be that far away !
I have never had noise issues bar when a client for neatness curled a cat5e and power together !! that caused mega issue but the 1st time I have seen issues in 30 years.

50mm is fine unless it's all parallel long runs.

most places run power and cat5e in the same 3 section conduit.

[Andehh]

Keeping the separation may be tricky in some areas, especially when chasing it into walls.

is there any benefit to using the shielding without terminating them into shielded connectors? Same again into non-shielded appliances (as I imagine all of mine are).

[AMST09]

Its not just for noise its also electrical regulation not to run them together
If you run them in the 3 compartment trunking its different, you have a barrier between the cables

We have a tick box on a our electrical certificate that states something along the lines of:
"Band 1 and band 2 insulated cables are separated"

Not exactly that but words to that effect

[AMST09]

Its not just for noise its also electrical regulation not to run them together
If you run them in the 3 compartment trunking its different, you have a barrier between the cables

We have a tick box on a our electrical certificate that states something along the lines of:
"Band 1 and band 2 insulated cables are separated"

Not exactly that but words to that effect

[Andehh]

Thanks for the comments guy, on a whim I checked the price of cat6 cabling and it isnt half as bad as I thought it was - no more then 15% more expensive really.

I can't see myself needing more then cat5e for the foreseeable future but if its only an extra £10 for the cable drum then I might as well go with it. I understand it is more delicate then cat5e but is there anything worth knowing prior to buying it?

Specialist plug needed? Backwards compatibility? Installation requirements etc?

Thanks again.


edit to add; Main use will be internet to devices (max internet available to us is fibre @ 30mbs), then sharing the Sky box between rooms via HDMI-over-twin-CAT cable, and providing internet to Fire TV box in each room. Then a cable or two spare for future devices (network enabled AV amp etc)

So in total looking at 4 cables to bedrooms, prob 5 cables to the lounge & snug, along with a coax cable to each place back to the loft.

Edited by Andehh on Wednesday 9th September 13:13