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controller cable - Jim Mandaville - 2015-02-01

Could someone give me a steer on what kind of cable to use for connecting the controller to my modem/router? Obviously ethernet, but should it be CAT5e network type?

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RE: controller cable - RichoAnd - 2015-02-01

Just Cat5 - without shield - often Cat5e is ok, but we have also seen noise problems because ground loops

RE: controller cable - Jim Mandaville - 2015-02-01

Thanks. Is there a generally recognized maximum length for this cable?

Jim

RE: controller cable - RichoAnd - 2015-02-01

100 feet       

RE: controller cable - Steph - 2015-02-02

The specifications for 10/100BaseT are 100m on a cat. 5 cable.

RE: controller cable - RichoAnd - 2015-02-02

(2015-02-01, 16:52)RichoAnd Wrote: 100 feet       

Sorry... 300 feet ~ 100m Blush

RE: controller cable - Jim Mandaville - 2015-02-04

(2015-02-02, 17:46)RichoAnd Wrote:
(2015-02-01, 16:52)RichoAnd Wrote: 100 feet       

Sorry... 300 feet ~ 100m Blush
Note that I was speaking of the distance from the controller to the computer cum modem, not the distance from the controller to the amplifier/antenna. Can the distance from the controller back to the modem really be 100 m?? if so, that would be useful to me.

Thanks, Jim

RE: controller cable - RichoAnd - 2015-02-04

I know, and yes 100m ~ 300ft is a norm and means between two peaces of hardware

RE: controller cable - Gerard.Parat - 2015-02-05

I have the controler outdoor with a 60m cat5 cable, powered with an homemade PoE.