Well I've got a fun day planned!

[HappyHippyDad]

I am almost 50 and think I am about 30. I go kick boxing and am by far the eldest. I can keep up with them fitness wise and strength but they run rings around me with agility and speed, hence, and to the point, I have a cracked rib from a kick......

So I'm bored at home and practising, albeit with the odd grimace, with the new wall chaser as in my other thread.

Today I am at the exciting stage of fitting the oval conduit into the chase, which I am actually quite excited about as I have only ever used capping and cant wait to see a neat piece of oval conduit popped into a chase half the size of one needed for capping. Also, thanks to @Baddegg I am going to use concrete screws to keep it in place, rather than use screws which need rawl plus. Again, I'm quite excited to see how this works and the time it will save!

My day doesn't stop there, it gets more exciting. I seem to be terrible at ethernet points. They just don't work, lucky I've only been asked once and found a solution. So, I have a bag of rj45's, cat 5, ethernet socket and a cup of fancy machine coffee and my day is about to rock! ?

 

[Julie.]

All new to me....what’s the difference in the 2 types of plugs?......living in the edge today @happyhippydad? ?

The cheaper ones are cat5, the others are cat6

 

[Julie.]

One claims Cat 5e, other Cat 6

What's the chances, both posted within seconds!!!

Great minds and all that

 

[pc1966]

I thought you did mate, why would you use shielded then?? Never touched this stuff before

I have hardly ever seen shielded Ethernet in use.

Obvious benefit is higher noise immunity, though the twisted-pairs of normal Ethernet is pretty good. Also to minimise any voltage differences between equipment, but again traditional Ethernet uses isolation transformers so doesn't care (within reason) though PoE stuff has the DC aspect on top of the AC coupled signals.

However, not a lot of equipment has earthing sockets so probably it is not much benefit without a bit of care in the overall setup design.

As an aside: once we had a cheap PoE switch in us as a "sacrificial barrier" between outdoor cameras and the internal (expensive) Cisco switch at my last job, just in case of any big lightning surges. The switch had 4 PoE ports and 4 normal, so we use a normal (i.e. transformer isolated) one to connect to the main Cisco switch which was PoE enabled.

 

[HappyHippyDad]

I bought the ideal rj45 crimper and through crimps, they are great!

The problem did actually turn out to be with the damn socket though, not the terminations of the socket though, the rj45 just wasn't making good contact into the socket!

 

[cloverman]

Yeah so handy to have around them rj45 through connectors, certainly make life easier for me !!

 

[ipf]

I bought the ideal rj45 crimper and through crimps, they are great!

The problem did actually turn out to be with the damn socket though, not the terminations of the socket though, the rj45 just wasn't making good contact into the socket!

Some can be quite flimsy. Believe it or not, the worst I came across were the Schneider/GET Ultimate. It is a really good, very costly range but RJ45 and telephone cable connections are very lacking.

 

[HappyHippyDad]

Some can be quite flimsy. Believe it or not, the worst I came across were the Schneider/GET Ultimate. It is a really good, very costly range but RJ45 and telephone cable connections are very lacking.

Interesting! This one was a shneider.

 

[UNG]

I have hardly ever seen shielded Ethernet in use.

Obvious benefit is higher noise immunity, though the twisted-pairs of normal Ethernet is pretty good. Also to minimise any voltage differences between equipment, but again traditional Ethernet uses isolation transformers so doesn't care (within reason) though PoE stuff has the DC aspect on top of the AC coupled signals.

However, not a lot of equipment has earthing sockets so probably it is not much benefit without a bit of care in the overall setup design.

As an aside: once we had a cheap PoE switch in us as a "sacrificial barrier" between outdoor cameras and the internal (expensive) Cisco switch at my last job, just in case of any big lightning surges. The switch had 4 PoE ports and 4 normal, so we use a normal (i.e. transformer isolated) one to connect to the main Cisco switch which was PoE enabled.

Used quite a bit of outdoor Cat5 STP on data radio equipment in the past but for normal network cabling I can only remember doing a couple of jobs where STP was specified