cat 5 & electrical

[Chris Aitken]

James Knott wrote:

>Chris Aitken wrote:
>  
>
>>Can you lay cat 5 alongside electrical wire in the wall frame
>>(pre-drywall) or is there disturbance/heat or any other problem?
>>    
>>
>While it's always a good idea to keep data and power separate, there is
>no interference issue between them.  The 60 Hz AC frequency is far
>removed from the frequencies used in ethernet.  Also, ethernet was
>designed to share multipair cables with phone systems, where the
>frequencies are also much higher than 60 Hz.
>  
>
Thanks. We're getting an electrician to inspect it and he wants to see 
separate holes minimum six inches apart - so we're going with that.

Thanks,

Chris


--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists